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Coming Into the Country

John McPhee

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Coming Into the Country

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.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2011
ISBN-13
9780374706074
Genre
Nonfiction
Topics
Alaska wildernessFrontier lifeBush communities

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