The Second John McPhee Reader

john mcphee david remnick

This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of Nature , and the four books on geology that comprise Annals of the Former World .

Genres nonfictionessaysscienceaudiobookenvironmentwritingnatureanthologiesshort storieshistory

416 pages, Paperback

First published February 28,1996

Series

John McPhee Reader

This edition

Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Published: February 28, 1996 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374524630
ASIN: 0374524637
Language: English

About the author

john mcphee

John Angus McPhee is an American writer. He is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction, and he won that award on the fourth occasion in 1999 for Annals of the Former World (a collection of five books, including two of his previous Pulitzer finalists). In 2008, he received the George Polk Career Award for his "indelible mark on American journalism during his nearly half-century career". Since 1974, McPhee has been the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.