About this item
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide.
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. The same year he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with FSG, and soon followed with The Headmaster (1966) , Oranges (1967) , The Pine Barrens (1968) , A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles (collection, 1969) , The Crofter and the Laird (1969) , Levels of the Game (1970) , Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) , The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed (1973) , The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) , Pieces of the Frame (collection, 1975) , and The Survival of the Bark Canoe (1975) . Both Encounters with the Archdruid and The Curve of Binding Energy were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science.
