And when you’re up there, the most impressive thing is the cycles of that world. There aren’t any people up there in that Salmon River valley, not even Eskimos. Cycles of one year, five years, a thousand years: all these different cycles spinning around. The cycles of the wildlife, the different species and how they come and go.
Books Coming into the Country
- Author
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John McPhee
- Year
- 1976
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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It is a kind of chorale for Alaskan voices, and gives the reader a strong sense of the kind of original, skeptical, resourceful people who have come here. With what patience McPhee records, and with what fascination one reads…
Coming into the Country
Uncommon Carriers
Basin and Range
The Road
Henderson the Rain King
Sabbatical: A Romance