Coming into the Country

Coming into the Country
Author John McPhee
Country United States
Language English
Genre Nonfiction
Publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Publication date
1 December 1977
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages 438 pp
ISBN 0-374-12645-3
OCLC 3223527
917.98/04/50924
LC Class F910 .M29 1977

Coming into the Country is a 1976 book by John McPhee about Alaska and McPhee's travels through much of the state with bush pilots, prospectors, and settlers, as well as politicians and businesspeople who each interpret the state in different ways.

One of his most widely read books, Coming into the Country is divided into three sections, "At the Northern Tree Line: The Encircled River," "In Urban Alaska: What They Were Hunting For," and "In the Bush: Coming into the Country."

Like all of McPhee's books, Coming into the Country started out as an outline that he proceeded to fill in. It is McPhee's best selling book.[1]

After the publication of Coming into the Country, The New York Times called McPhee "the most versatile journalist in America."

See also

References

  1. Sims, Norman (1996). "John McPhee" (PDF). Dictionary of Literary Biography, American Literary Journalists, 1945–1995. Retrieved 31 March 2015.

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