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The control of nature

Author: John McPhee
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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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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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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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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