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  • Draft No. 4

    On the Writing Process

    by John McPhee ...
    The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacherDraft No. 4 is a master class on the writer’s craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Encounters with the Archdruid

    Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies

    by John McPhee ...
    The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Levels of the Game

    by John McPhee ...
    Levels of the Game is John McPhee's astonishing account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968.It begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description while examining the backgrounds and attitudes which have molded the players' games."This may be the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Coming into the Country

    by John McPhee ...
    Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. 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.Readers of McPhee's earlier books will not be unprepared for his surprising shifts of scene ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Tabula Rasa

    Volume 1

    by John McPhee ...
    A literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why.Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, dissident art in the Soviet Union, and an even wider variety of other subjects, he has ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Founding Fish

    by John McPhee ...
    John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn.McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Final Sunset

    The fatal sinking of the HMBS Flamingo

    by John McPhee ...
    In the quiet still hours of the evening on May 10, 1980, a young nation faced its most crucial hour. Two Cuban MiGs were dispatched by Cuba's competent authority. Their ultimate destination Cay Santo Domingo a small cay in the southern hemisphere of the Bahamas. Their intended target: HMBS Flamingo, a one-hundred-and-four-foot Bahamian patrol vessel with two Cuban fishing vessels, Ferrocemento 54 ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Looking for a Ship

    by John McPhee ...
    This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Pine Barrens

    by John McPhee ...
    Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Irons in the Fire

    by John McPhee ...
    In this collection John McPhee once agains proves himself as a master observer of all arenas of life as well a powerful and important writer. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Headmaster

    Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield

    by John McPhee ...
    Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school's headmaster for sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man "at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Annals of the Former World

    by John McPhee ...
    Series series Annals of the Former World
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion yearsTwenty 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 ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD