The control of nature
By: John McPhee.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Environmental protection; Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Description: McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
Notes: "The text of this book originally appeared in the New Yorker"--T.p. verso.