- Gebundene Ausgabe: 438 Seiten
- Verlag: Farrar Straus Giroux; Auflage: 1st Edition (November 1977)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0374126453
- ISBN-13: 978-0374126452
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,3 x 14,5 x 3,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (9 Kundenrezensionen)
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Residents of the Lower 48 sometimes imagine Alaska as a snow-covered land of igloos, oil pipelines, and polar bears. But Alaska is far more complex geographically, culturally, ecologically, and politically than most Americans know, and few writers are as capable of capturing this complexity as John McPhee. In Coming into the Country, McPhee describes his travels through much of the state with bush pilots, prospectors, and settlers, as well as politicians and businesspeople who have their eyes set on a very different future for the state.
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Format:Taschenbuch
John McPhee, it's often noted, can write about anythying and make it interesting, so when he tackles a subject as broad and fascinating as Alaska you know you're in for a treat.
The book is divided into three parts; it begins in modern Urban Alaska, with the story of its history and contemporary society. From McPhee takes you to the remote villages and towns, a place still populated by Native peoples and rugged outdoorsmen (and women). The last chapter concerns Alaska's last frontier- the remote North Slope, and the men who drill for oil there.
Like all McPhee books, the author seems to fade into the background and let the people and the land tell the story for him. Sometimes the reader feels as if or she, and not McPhee, is standing there on an oil rig.
Alaska is a rich topic, and McPhee is a wonderful writer. A great combination.
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Lots of writers have tried to convey Alaska to non-Alaskans. Few have succeeded. Those who have are the ones who have chosen to illustrate small parts of the larger whole, and selected the right parts. Margaret Murie comes to mind. But 16 years on, Coming Into the Country is still the best.
I own and have read everything McPhee has written. I subscribe to New Yorker mostly for the annual or biennial piece by McPhee. I like the geology series very much, and parts of Birch Bark Canoe still make me laugh out loud, but Country is his best book.
McPhee's many gifts including finding and understanding interesting, compelling people, and writing about them eloquently and non-judgmentally. He uses those people and what they say to convey his larger themes. Stan Gelvin and his dad, Willie Hensley and, of course, the folks in and around Eagle. He somehow wrangled a seat on the state capital relocation committee's helicopter. He somehow charmed the irascible Joe Vogler into candor. I talked with Vogler - who has since been murdered in a gun deal gone bad - about McPhee's interview, and he told me that McPhee took no notes during interviews over a week, and yet "pretty much got it right."
I've lived in Alaska most of my life. I've read the gushy stuff (Michener, for example), the political diatribes (Joe McGinnis, for example), and the gee-whiz tourist fodder. McPhee, instead of trying to paint the whole state, paints a series of miniatures which give you a much accurate glimpse than the writers and hacks who try to "describe" Alaska.
Maybe it's that America's best non-fiction writer brought his special tools and skills to the right opportunities; maybe it's just luck. It all came together in this book. The last bit, his walk down to the river and the growing worry, verging on panic, that this is wilderness, that a bear could be around the next corner, that he is not in control and can never be in control; the eloquence and the message are what makes Alaska. No one has described it better.
If you want to try to understand Alaska, its people, its politics and why I live here, this book is the best place to start. This book is a great writer's greatest book.
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John McPhee is a writer who seems able to interest readers in anything that captures his attention. The range of subjects that his books cover is striking and his skill at involving readers in subjects that they might heretofore have thought uninteresting is, in my opinion, unique. This book, recounting a journey through Alaska - as a pretext for broader commentary about Alaska and its relationship with the lower 48 - is an excellent introduction to the state we only think we know. I read this during a long stretch of living and working in Alaska and found it to be the most insightful and interesting book on the subject that I had found. As is true with all of McPhee's books, this one satisfys on many levels, from the clarity of the prose to the fascinating subject matter. Great stuff.
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Elegant factual writing
This is an elegant work of factual writing -- not fancy or pretentious, but intricate, charming and strong. John McPhee is a master.
Am 22. September 1999 veröffentlicht
One of my favorite books
I've read this book 5 times because it fills a huge hole in my heart that has grown wider due to urbanization. My favorite part is the bush and the characters living there. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
One of the best books about life in Alaska
The portrait of Eagle... a masterpiece! For one who loves Eagle it's a treasure.
Am 30. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Tricky, imaginative: McPhee at his best.
If you already love McPhee's work or are interested in trying him, Coming into the Country will fulfill any expectations. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
It may send you there ...
In the summer of '81, Jane told me, "You have to read this book!" and meant to give it to me for a birthday gift. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. November 1997 von p_laub@fccc.edu
Literary suprise and Alaskan bush.
McPhee opens his three part book with "The Encircled River," which doesn't describe a circular river or something simple like that, but rather is a very clever literary... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. April 1997 veröffentlicht
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