Coming into the Country | John McPhee | It may send you there ...

Coming into the Country | John McPhee | Literary suprise and Alaskan bush.

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Coming into the Co...

	Coming into the Country John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

It may send you there ...

In the summer of '81, Jane told me, "You have to read this book!" and meant to give it to me for a birthday gift. However, before she had a chance, I had bought the book and was 80 pages into it. Two summers later, I found myself walking along a desolate stretch of the Alcan Highway in Canada's Yukon Territory. I was hitchhiking to Alaska, a place I felt destined to visit having read "Coming into the Country". I never did make it to Eagle (the village described at length by McPhee) but nonetheless remained "in country" until my money ran out five months later. Few books I have read yield such a feel for a place as this one does.

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Literary suprise and Alaskan bush.

McPhee opens his three part book with "The Encircled River," which doesn't describe a circular river or something simple like that, but rather is a very clever literary trick to illustrate a backpacking trip into the remote Brooks Range. The rest of the book is just as effective. McPhee's portrait of Alaska is highly literate and engrossing

A lucid, lyrical account of America's last frontier.

John McPhee is a master at weaving many stories together into a coherent whole. Here he uses these skills to paint a portrait of the varied and often conflicting interests that co-habit today's Alaska. He shifts perspective, examining now the modern-day pioneer who seeks to escape the modern world, and then the representatives of that same world, the government agents and politicians who have their own agenda for America's largest state. This book is wonderfully written in a lucid, literary prose. McPhee puts many other writers of non-fiction, and many of our best literary writers, to shame

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