num_pages: 416
description: 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 .
language: English
title: The Second John McPhee Reader
titlecomplete: The Second John McPhee Reader
genres: Environment, Essays, Science, Writing, Travel, Nature, Anthologies, Nonfiction, History, Journalism
ratings_count: 241
series: John McPhee Reader
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux