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Pulitzer-winning author John McPhee provides a guide to writing long-form nonfiction, emphasising diction, tone, the obscuring of structure and the essential position of revising.

NATURE / General

Narrare la radicale stoltezza umana che muove alcune grandi imprese della tecnica: con questo scopo McPhee ha esplorato e studiato per anni i luoghi in cui l'uomo si è impegnato in una battaglia totale con la natura per conquistare ciò che non è dato, per "accerchiare la base dell'Olimpo, reclamando e aspettando la resa degli dei". Un'analisi critica, con numerosi esempi reali, di come gli uomini mettano a repentaglio la loro stessa vita e non...

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McPhee offers ... guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny"--Amazon.com.

Se c'è un libro in grado di dividere i lettori fra chi rischia di contrarre in una forma o nell'altra il morbo del tennis, e chi invece ne risulta immune, è questo. Dove si rivive, un punto dopo l'altro, la semifinale di Forest Hills 1968 fra Arthur Ashe e Clark Graebner - la prima disputata da un tennista nero agli albori dell'era Open, ma anche e soprattutto la prima partita di tennis raccontata dall'interno del luogo enigmatico e fino ad al...

Pieces of the Frame" is a gathering of memorable writings by one of the greatest journalists and storytellers of our time. They take the reader from the backwoods roads of Georgia, to the high altitude of Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico, from the social decay of Atlantic City, to Scotland, where a pilgrimage for art's sake leads to a surprising encounter with history on a hilltop with a view of a fifth of the entire country. McPhee's writing is mo...

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

Pulitzer Prize winner John McPhee plunges into the wild frontiers and frigid climates of Alaska, exploring the varied regions and people of this northern US state. With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane.

Foreword by Richard Mabey. Pulitzer Prize winner John McPhee takes us on a remarkable journey in search of the world's most popular fruit.

La Place de la Concorde Suisse" is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Isrealis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model.

The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sis...

In this collection John McPhee once agains proves himself as a master observer of all arenas of life as well a powerful and important writer.

First published in book form 1985, "Table of Contents "is a collection of eight pieces written by John McPhee between 1981 and 1984. Geographically and thematically, they range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in a small village near the Arctic Circle and the arrival of wild bears in considerable numbers in New Jersey, swarming in from the Poconos in search of a better life. The essays in this colle...

Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school's headmaster for sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man "at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolu...

This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of Nature, and the four books on geology that comprise Annals of the Former World.

Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On...

The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide.

When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee's first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates for the reader the training and techniques that made Bradley the extraordinary athlete he was, and this part of the book is a blueprint of superlative basketball. But athletic prowess alone would not explain Bradley's mag...

This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description while examining the backgrounds and attitudes which have molded the players' games.