Coming into the Country

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.

• Annals of the Former World
• The Control of Nature
• The Pine Barrens
• Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
• Arctic Dreams
• Alaska: A Novel
• Travels in Alaska
• The Survival of the Bark Canoe
• Oranges
• A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River