{"product_id":"the-control-of-nature","title":"The Control of Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e McPhee, John A.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Reprint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 31-12-1990\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description\n\n\nThe Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking is his depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those attempting to wrest control from her - stubborn, sometimes foolhardy, more often ingenious, and always arresting characters.\n\n\nReview\n\n\n\"All three elemental battles recounted by the masterly McPhee are unified by the most uncontrolled and stubborn of all forces: human nature.\" --R. Z. Sheppard, Time \n\"It is difficult to put these stories aside. If the stories bear witness to the ultimate triumph of nature over human engineering, they also testify to the triumph of art over nature.\" --\nStephen J. Pyne, The New York Times Book Review (front page)\n\"This book is unmistakable McPhee: the silky narrative, with keen detail and sharp dialogue, the finely drawn characters, the nimble metaphors.\" --\nStephen MacDonald, The Wall Street Journal\n\"Some of his passages left me gasping for breath...This book gave me more pure enjoyment than anything I've read in a long time.\" --\nChristopher Shaw, The Washington Post Book World\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\nJohn McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at\nTime magazine and led to his long association with\nThe New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book,\nA Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written over 30 books, including\nOranges (1967),\nComing into the Country (1977),\nThe Control of Nature (1989),\nThe Founding Fish (2002),\nUncommon Carriers (2007), and\nSilk Parachute (2011).\nEncounters with the Archdruid (1972) and\nThe Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for\nAnnals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374522599\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e UsedVeryGood\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40056922308760,"sku":"FE-NCXC-29KV","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0293\/7474\/2572\/products\/418OXGKMLDL.jpg?v=1621780822","url":"https:\/\/www.pigeonhousebooks.com\/products\/the-control-of-nature","provider":"Pigeonhouse Books, Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}