Coming into the Country - John McPhee

Written by John McPhee
Read by Nelson Runger
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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Those who have traveled into America’s only remaining frontier rarely come back out the same. Only in Alaska can we come close to understanding what our forefathers must have felt upon their arrival in the New World. McPhee brings to this narrative the qualities that have distinguished him in the field of travel literature—tolerance, brisk, and entertaining prose, and a fascination with things most of us never bother to notice.

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from Wikipedia:

Coming into the Country is a 1976 book by John McPhee about Alaska and McPhee’s travels through much of the state with bush pilots, prospectors, and settlers, as well as politicians and businesspeople who each interpret the state in different ways.

One of his most widely read books, Coming into the Country is divided into three sections, “At the Northern Tree Line: The Encircled River,” “In Urban Alaska: What They Were Hunting For,” and “In the Bush: Coming into the Country”.

Like all of McPhee’s books, Coming into the Country started out as an outline that he proceeded to fill in. It is McPhee’s best-selling book.

After the publication of Coming into the Country, The New York Times called McPhee “the most versatile journalist in America”.

16 hours and 17 minutes

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