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McPhee, John (Angus)
McPhee, John [Angus] (1931– ),graduate of Princeton, where he has been a professor of journalism, became a staff writer for The New Yorker in 1965. For its “Profiles” he has written on such diverse people as a professional basketball player from Princeton, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, championship tennis stars, and a nuclear physicist, all reissued as books. His early books on natural history include Oranges (1967), on the botany, history, and industry of the fruit; The Pine Barrens (1968), about a wilderness area of New Jersey; The Survival of the Bark Canoe (1975); and the more substantial Coming into the Country (1977), about Alaska. Basin and Range (1981), In Suspect Terrain (1983), and Rising from the Plains (1986) resulted from his field trips with geologists. Other recent books include Outcroppings (1988), drawing on that series in part to deal with western U.S. geology and ecology. In Suspect Terrain and Table of Contents (1985), like others, were first printed in The New Yorker. More essays are brought together in the wide-ranging collection Irons in the Fire (1997) and another collection of pieces on geology, Annals of the Former World (1998, Pulitzer Prize). The Founding Fish (2002) is a study of the American shad.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "McPhee, John (Angus)." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "McPhee, John (Angus)." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-McPheeJohnAngus.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "McPhee, John (Angus)." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-McPheeJohnAngus.html |
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Alaska Range
Alaska Range S central Alaska, rising to the highest mountain in North America, Mt. McKinley (20,320 ft/6,194 m). The range divides S central Alaska from the great plateau of the interior. Mt. Spurr, an 11,070-ft-high (3,376-m) volcano 80 mi (129 km) W of Anchorage erupted several times in 1992 after a dormancy of 39 years. |
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"Alaska Range." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Alaska Range." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-AlaskaRa.html "Alaska Range." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-AlaskaRa.html |
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