Binding: Paperback
Description: Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters observed landscapes and descriptive narrative in three principal segments that deal respectively with a total wilderness with urban Alaska and with life in the remoteness of the bush. Readers of Mc Phee's earlier books will not be unprepared for his surprising shifts of scene and ordering of events brilliantly combined into an organic whole. In the course of this volume we are made acquainted with the lore and techniques of placer mining the habits and legends of the barren - ground grizzly the outlook of a young Athapaskan chief and tales of the fortitude of settlers ordinary people compelled by extraordinary dreams. Coming into the Country unites a vast region of America with one of America's notable literary craftsmen singularly qualified to do justice to the scale and grandeur of the design.
Title: Coming Into The Country
Author(s): Mcphee John
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374522872
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/1/1991
Category: Travel & Holiday Guides