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The Control of Nature

John McPhee

  • 272 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1989
  • 13 editions
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1 About this book

McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.

Good for readers who want: the environment and nature.

  • Environmental protection
  • Nature
  • Influence on nature
  • Nature, effect of human beings on
  • Effect of human beings on
  • Man
  • Human beings
  • Mensch

2 About John McPhee

Born 1931

John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American author. He is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction, and he won that award on the fourth occasion in 1999 for Annals of the Former World (a collection of five books, including two of his previous Pulitzer finalists).

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