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	John McPhee Biography and Summary
		John McPhee's career as a writer began during the 1960s when American nature writing was infused with the social and political urgencies of late-twentieth-century environmentalism.
		John McPhee's career as a literary journalist has been tangled with the history of The New Yorker magazine since he became a staff writer in 1965.
		John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is a writer widely considered one of the pioneers of literary non-fiction.
	www.bookrags.com /John_McPhee (154 words)

	Encyclopedia: John McPhee
		John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is a writer widely considered one of the pioneers of literary non-fiction.
		John McPhee was educated at Deerfield Academy, Princeton University and Cambridge University.
		John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is a non-fiction writer who is widely considered one of the pioneers of the genre of literary non-fiction.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-McPhee (1946 words)

	The John McPhee Reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Most readers have a favorite author, and mine is probably John McPhee.
		McPhee's first book was an admiring portrayal of a talented basketball player he got to know during college years: Bill Bradley later became US senator from New Jersey and a serious contender for the US presidential nomination.
		Both were invited by McPhee to share a rafting trip down the Grand Canyon.
	www.phy6.org /outreach/books/McPhee.htm (510 words)

	Powell's Books - Annals of the Former World by John Mcphee
		McPhee's purpose was to write an extended essay exploring this cross-section of the North American continent, as well as to create a portrait of the scientists who have made it their life's work to uncover its mysteries.
		What distinguishes McPhee from the vast majority of his fellow science writers is that rare ability to illuminate technical issues with the wonder of a child, the lyricism of a poet, and the depth of a philosopher.
		Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0374105200 (772 words)

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		One reason McPhee is so hard to classify when the discussion turns to literary journalism may be that he simply does not fall along the newspaperman-novelist continuum.' Although he was not a newsman, he is a great reporter; few people so thoroughly immerse themselves in their subject.
		McPhee~s use of the very word "archdruid" and his names for the book's three distinct parts reveal a grander design: "A Mountain," "An Island," "A River." And Brower is not merely a personality in a journalistic feature.
		Through McPhee's organic design, the reader is presented with a tale of two forces clashing in American culture, development and conservation, a variation of the theme of the machine in the garden.4 The tensions and conflicts that arise from these forces and the book's characters cannot be easily reconciled.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~despey/mcphee.txt (3594 words)

	Shrining Narrative: The travel writings of D.H. Lawrence, Bruce Chatwin and John McPhee
		McPhee spends a great portion of the book in describing named locations on the island and the incredible histories behind them, usually having to do with clan warfare and grisly murders of people important to their historical moment on Colonsay.
		McPhee's living there is an attempt to flesh out the narrative of the place as it is, not only in paying tribute to the history Colonsay maintains, but in bringing it into the context of the modern world, and discussing the ramifications of its existence as such.
		McPhee may have good reason to regard so much of Colonsay as a shrine to stories past, as he is directly related to the inhabitants of the small island.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /uk/chatwin/effros2.html (3416 words)

	John McPhee
		John was born on June 21, 1918, in New Zealand, of Irish/Danish heritage.
		John was an intellectual spirit, though he tempered this with practicality and adventure.
		John was transferred back to England and attached to the RAF for awhile, and this placed him in contact with the best airlines.
	www.bermuda-triangle.org /html/john_mcphee.html (2413 words)

	The Founding Fish, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, John McPhee
		John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume.
		McPhee has a fine ability to evoke what is special about a place, the people who live there, and what they do, and this book is no different.
		McPhee's world is populated with fascinating characters - ichthyologists, shad dart makers, and a seine fisherman from the Bay of Fundy.
	allentech.net /bookstore/item_0374528837.html (974 words)

	John McPhee
		John McPhee (born 1931) is a nonfiction writer who has (as of 2003) written 29 books.
		Born in Princeton, New Jersey, McPhee was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University.
		Sir John McPhee was also a Premier of Tasmania.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_McPhee.html (156 words)

	Living On A Wednesday Afternoon: The Work of John McPhee
		In 1946, at the age of 15, John McPhee sat with a friend on a windowsill of the Joseph Henry House, near the heart of the Princeton University campus.
		McPhee’s journalism goes deep into the heart of what it is to be American in the modern world, what it is to be human.
		McPhee was born in 1931, in Princeton, and graduated in 1953 from his home-town university with a degree in English.
	www.odu.edu /ao/instadv/quest/WorkOfJohnMcPhee.html (1340 words)

	Bookreporter.com - UNCOMMON CARRIERS by John McPhee
		And one of McPhee's own "secrets" is the inclusion of interesting people (other than himself) who are closely involved with the things in some manner.
		Adams's mate takes up a position at the head of the barges and sends reports by radiophone to keep the man at the wheel informed of where they are in relation to the channel and to the supporting piers of the numerous bridges under which they pass.
		McPhee asks a few questions he knows readers would pose, such as the sorts of things Ainsworth sees in his aerial view of four-wheelers.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0374280398.asp (914 words)

	Assembling California:McPhee, John:0374523932:eCampus.com
		At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee has made geological field trips in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis.
		McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona (where Moores grew up in a gold-mining camp), and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California.
		In 1978 and 1979, John McPhee also began his wider series of related journeys, traversing North America at about the fortieth parallel, using roadcuts of interstate 80 as windows into regional geologies, and incidentally profiling the lives of the geologists with whom he travelled.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0374523932&referrer=yah04 (298 words)

	Amazon.ca: Basin and Range: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		John McPhee's Basin and Range is a layman's geology explaining the formation of mountains and valleys between the Great Salt Lake and the Sierra Nevadas.
		McPhee makes geology approachable and uncovers the deep intrigue of a science which can be punishing when presented in textbook style.
		While McPhee's simplification of the processes that formed the Basin and Range may be helpful at an amateur level, it may as well be frustrating and cannot compete with the knowledge one would gain from reading a more formal publication.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0374516901 (1388 words)

	Annals of the Former World (John McPhee) - review
		It combines a multi-faceted view of geology —; an introduction to some basic theory, the particulars of North American geological history, and something of the history and sociology of the science — with elements of travel narrative, biography, and history, melding this mixture together almost seamlessly.
		McPhee travels with Anita Harris, discoverer of colour changes in conodonts as a measure of rock temperature (and something of a skeptic about plate tectonics); he also covers glacial geology and its history (going back to Agassiz) and the origins of coal and petroleum.
		McPhee's books are not your run-of-the-mill popular science: like the essays of Stephen Jay Gould, they are memorable as much for their unique style as for their content, and for a virtuoso intertwining of the two that never seems artificial.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Assembling_California.html (558 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - John McPhee - Books: Meet the Writers
		John McPhee -- a writer with The New Yorker since 1965 -- writes about most anything that piques his interest, from California geology to the arc of a tennis ball to the construction of a birch-bark canoe.
		A collection that provides an introduction to McPhee's work, this 1976 book wound up as No. 54 on New York University’s list of the top 100 pieces of American journalism in the 20th century, and was followed by The Second John McPhee Reader in 1996.
		The elder McPhee is no stranger to the award himself, as both Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?z=y&vcqty=1&cid=982496 (299 words)

	Bublos.com, Books ›› Assembling California, by John McPhee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		McPhee's apt phrase "lithospheric driftwood" refers to the fact that today's California is a patchwork of bits and pieces from all over the world (as is much of the west coast of the USA, including Alaska).
		When McPhee writes seemingly simple sentences such as, "There were orchards of carobs, figs, and pistachios, and an understory of prickly pears," he paints an entire countryside in just a few strokes of language.
		McPhee himself notes this, referring to geosynclines -- a mainstay of the 'old' geology -- as "a rational fiction", and that "he is following a science as it lurches forward from error to discovery and back to error" (referring to an early mis-constructions).
	www.bublos.com /isbn/0374523932.html (1856 words)

	First Editions by John McPhee
		McPhee's classic narrative of the Swiss Army through the eyes of Luc Massy, who like 650,000 other Swiss citizens, is a member of the army which can be fully mobilized in less than 48 hours.
		John McPhee: A Sense of Where You Are, First Edition Published by: Farrar, Straus & Giroux in New York: 1965.
		John McPhee: The Survival of the Bark Canoe, First Edition Published by: Farrar Straus Giroux in New York: 1975.
	www.townsendbooks.com /mcphee.htm (2346 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: John McPhee
		It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush.
		The result is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults.
		John McPhee is a shad fisherman, and his passion for the annual shad run has led him, over the years, to learn much of what there is to know about the fish known as Alosa sapidissima, or "most savory." In The Founding Fish, McPhee makes...
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/JohnMcPheeeBooks.htm (318 words)

	Bublos.com, Books ›› Annals of the Former World
		McPhee's great virtue as a journalist covering the sciences--and any other of the countless subjects he has taken on, for that matter--is his ability to distill and explain complex matters: here, for example, the processes of mineral deposition or of plate tectonics.
		McPhee leaves you legitimately conversant in the particulars of plate tectonics and the Precambrian era, for example, but perhaps more importantly he deepens one's understanding of how our little planet got this far, how small a role we humans play in this history, and how the earth is still writing history today.
		McPhee is able to make billions of years come alive and be wonderfully memorable on a sojourn from the Delaware Water Gap to the San Francisco Bay.
	www.bublos.com /isbn/0374518734.html (1752 words)

	SALON: Sneak Peeks, page 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Reading either of these anthologies is a little like taking a tour through a small-town museum, the kind established in 1910 by the eccentric heir to the local pig-iron fortune and filled with a melange of stuffed animals, pottery shards, arrowheads, and the founder's rock collection too.
		This particular stroll through the McPhee Museum brings glimpses of the Last Frontier, New York vegetable sellers, the Swiss Army, bush pilots, rural doctors, merchant marine sailors, Russian art collectors, and portions of the author's extensive writings on North American geology.
		McPhee's geology writings have irked his critics and tried the patience of even his fans.
	www.salon.com /07/sneakpeeks/sneakpeeks8.html (344 words)

	BookkooB : The Founding Fish - John McPhee : Compare Book Prices
		John McPhee, "a registered curmudgeon", was fishing for shad on the Delaware River one afternoon when he felt a tug.
		McPhee, accompanied by fishermen and researchers, traces the history and physiology of the American shad.
		McPhee's experiences, brought to light by his superb prose, bring fresh breadth of vision to the world of fishermen and fish.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/1899863982.htm (754 words)

	John McPhee
		McPhee learned early in life how to research a subject, and he's been outlining his work for more than half a century.
		Commenting on McPhee's remarkable accomplishments as a journalist, Robert Bittner wrote, "If you haven't heard of or read John McPhee, he is a long-time staff writer for the New Yorker and something of the modern model for every nonfiction writer aspiring to high-quality, in-depth journalism.
		John McPhee has received many literary honors, including the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-030805-mcphee.html (703 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Control of Nature - John A. McPhee - Paperback
		McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked into contested territories, The Control of Nature examines in detail the strategies and tactics through which people attmept to control their natural surroundings.
		McPhee went to Hawaii to talk with them and to walk beside the edges of a molten lake and incandescent rivers.
		John Mcphee's writing is captivating, allowing you to see his subjects the way he sees them.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=JE4c5NfBX1&isbn=0374522596&itm=1 (721 words)

	Oranges, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, John McPhee
		While many readers are familiar with John McPhee's masterful pieces on a large scale (the geological history of North America, or the nature of Alaska), McPhee is equally remarkable when he considers the seemingly inconsequential.
		As McPhee chronicles orange farmers struggling with frost and horticulturists' new breeds of citrus, oranges come to seem a microcosm of man's relationship with nature.
		McPhee wanders (as only he can) through the history of citrus, the orangeries of European nobility, the Indian River orange groves, the production of reconstituted orange juice, and throws in a riff on Minute Maid and the old-time orange barons.
	allentech.net /bookstore/item_0374512973.html (1036 words)

	John McPhee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		John E. McPhee has been responsible in the Department of Commerce for analyses, trade policy development and export assistance affecting the high technology industries for over twenty years.
		McPhee and his colleagues were awarded the Department's Silver Medal for their work on the latter study.
		McPhee was personally awarded the Department's Silver Medal in recognition of his long term contributions to the analysis of developments in these industries.
	www.harvardchina.org /conference/may_conference_97/mcphee_bio.html (245 words)

	WCHA - Member Book & Video Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Several strands are woven into John McPhee's The Survival of the Bark Canoe, a slender book which raises a number of questions of interest to those who cherish small boats or like to explore or poke about woods, streams or remote lakes in the wilderness.
		There is little in the way of idealization of the wilderness or rhapsody about the joys of returning to nature, for the trail and campsites are buggy, wet or muddy and the open water alarmingly rough in a stiff blow whenever the group ventures onto it.
		McPhee is fascinated by his principal character and presents him to the reader as something of an enigma.
	www.wcha.org /reviews/jl_sbc.html (1096 words)

	WPI Department of Military Science - Sergeant First Class John D. McPhee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		John D. McPhee currently serves as a cadet instructor in the Department of Military Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) where he is directly involved in the training, development, counseling, and evaluation of the Army ROTC cadets on a day to day basis.
		John holds the rank of Sergeant First Class in the United States Army, and is branched Infantry.
		SFC McPhee has also had assignments in various parts of the world during his military career.
	www.wpi.edu /Academics/Depts/MilSci/People/mcphee.html (110 words)

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