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

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	• Coming into the Country John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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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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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

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