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Coming into the Country

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0374522871
ISBN-13 9780374522872
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Apr 1st, 1991
Weight 464 grams
Dimensions 13.80 x 20.90 x 3.00 cms
Ksh 3,950.00
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To many Americans in the "Lower 48," Alaska seems almost a foreign country, and John McPhee's evocations of its people and its landscapes in no way alters that impression. McPhee gives us, as only he can, a vivid picture of the state's varied variegation and a feeling for its special identity.

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 and ordering of events, brilliantly combined into an organic whole. In the course of this volume we are made acquainted with the lore and techniques of placer mining, the habits and legends of the barren-ground grizzly, the outlook of a young Athapaskan chief, and tales of the fortitude of settlers?ordinary people compelled by extraordinary dreams. Coming into the Country unites a vast region of America with one of America''s notable literary craftsmen, singularly qualified to do justice to the scale and grandeur of the design.


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