Coming into the Country
by John McPhee

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 principle segments that deal, repesctively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush. Readers of McPhee's other 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.

"What is really in view in Coming into the Country is a matter not usually met in works of reportage... nothing less than the nature of the human condition."
--The Atlantic Monthly

ZB2871    Coming into the Country                               $17.00

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