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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John McPhee |
| ISBN: | 0374128901 9780374128906 9780374522599 0374522596 |
| OCLC Number: | 19264143 |
| Notes: | "The text of this book originally appeared in the New Yorker"--T.p. verso. |
| Description: | 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Atchafalaya -- Cooling the lava -- Los Angeles against the mountains. |
| Responsibility: | John McPhee. |
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Abstract:
McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
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