Control of Nature

JOHN MCPHEE

ISBN 10: 0374522596 / ISBN 13: 9780374522599

Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux September 1990, 1990

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First paperback edition - Tenth printing. Pages are clean and unmarked. Minimal soiling to the page edges. Minor rubbing to the edges and corner. Overall still in great condition. Codice articolo 256340

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Titolo: Control of Nature

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux September 1990

Data di pubblicazione: 1990

Legatura: Paper Back

Condizione: Very Good

Edizione: First Edition.

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Riassunto:

The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking is his depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those attempting to wrest control from her - stubborn, sometimes foolhardy, more often ingenious, and always arresting characters.

Informazioni sull?autore:

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.