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The Control of Nature
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The Control of Nature Paperback - 1990

by John McPhee

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The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking is his depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those attempting to wrest control from her - stubborn, sometimes foolhardy, more often ingenious, and always arresting characters.


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The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking is his depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those attempting to wrest control from her - stubborn, sometimes foolhardy, more often ingenious, and always arresting characters.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux published a First Printing, First Edition hardcover in New York, 1989.


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  • Title The Control of Nature
  • Author John McPhee
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1998 Ninth Print
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York, U.s.a.
  • Publication date 1990-09-01
  • ISBN 9780374522599 / 0374522596
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.28 x 5.46 x 0.75 in (21.03 x 13.87 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Environmental protection, Nature - Effect of human beings on
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 89001052
  • Dewey Decimal Code 304.2

About the author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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