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The Second John McPhee Reader

by John McPhee · 1996

John McPhee Reader series

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This second volume of The John McPhee Readerincludes 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.

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