Coming into the Country

Coming into the Country
Coming into the Country  
Author(s) John McPhee
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Nonfiction
Publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Publication date 1976
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages 438 pp
ISBN 0-37-412645-3
OCLC Number 3223527
Dewey Decimal 917.98/04/50924
LC Classification F910 .M29 1977

Coming into the Country is a 1976 book by John McPhee about Alaska and McPhee's travels through much of the state with bush pilots, prospectors, and settlers, as well as politicians and businesspeople who each interpret the state in different ways.

One of his most widely read books, Coming into the Country is divided into three sections, "At the Northern Tree Line: The Encircled River," "In Urban Alaska: What They Were Hunting For," and "In the Bush: Coming into the Country."

After the publication of Coming into the Country, The New York Times called McPhee "the most versatile journalist in America."

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