Coming into the Country
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- ISBN13: 9780374522872
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of plain characters, experimental landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the inaccessibility 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 lonely-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.
Amazon.com Review
Residents of the Lower 48 sometimes imagine Alaska as a snow-covered land of igloos, oil pipelines, and polar bears. But Alaska is far more complex geographically, culturally, cost-effectively, and politically than most Americans know, and few writers are as capable of capturing this complexity as John McPhee. In Coming into the Country, McPhee describes his travels through much of the state with bush pilots, prospectors, and settlers, as well as politicians and businesspeople who have their eyes set on a very different future for the state.
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Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Fantastic book – as usual for McPhee. The best book on Alaska.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
An entertaining and astute observation of Alaska and it’s peoples. Fiercely independent vs the predatory personalities and attitudes are marked here with adroit humour. For persons of us who are unable to traverse this land of staggering beauty, McPhee takes us there to see, hear, and smell the sounds of the rivers, the majesty of the mountains, the wildness of the bush and it’s animals, both human and not. This is a wonderful read and we are all the richer for his contribution to the allure of Alaska. As my son, who lives in Anchorage says, ” You see it all here as Mc Phee describes it”.. No better review could be stated.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
one of the three books that i permanently recommend to folks i know who are either travelling to, or moving to Alaska.
McPhee is fantastic. If you like this, then read Birchback Canoe and Control of Scenery.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
John McPhee’s “Coming Into the Country” is one of persons kinds of books that even though written in the 1970s, has an enduring quality. If this is the only Alaska-themed book you read, you will gain a lot of insight. As a name who was born and raised in Alaska–and still considers himself an Alaskan even after 10 years of living in the Lower 48–McPhee made me feel the pains and pleasures of recognition. As I read “Coming Into the Country,” I establish myself chuckling, nodding, and learning something new.
McPhee is a journalist, but he writes like a novelist. His choice of words, composition approaches, and point of view captures the heart of what Alaska is and who Alaskans are. This land and these people have permanently been “this way,” and even more than 30 years later continue to be “that way.”
My father-in-law, who lived more than 40 years in Alaska, saw McPhee’s book in my living room. He selected it up, browsed through it, and then questioned to borrow it after I was through. Needless to say, it is in his possession now and he is reading it this summer while he vacations in, you guessed it, Alaska.
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Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5