A roomful of Hovings and other profiles
By: by John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780374515010
Subjects: Biography
Description: Profiles include: Thomas P. F. Hoving, art historian, sometime political influence, former floorwalker; the late Euell Gibbons, famous forager of edible wild plants and author of Stalking the Wild Asparagus; Carroll Brewster of the intrepid team of M.I.T. Fellows, in the Sudan; Robert Twynam, tender of the lawn at Wimbledon; and Temple Fielding, mercurial and influential author of the popular travel guides to Europe.