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Neither Ray nor anyone else can solve another problem: population growth. Looking anxiously ahead, Tom McCall, then Governor of Oregon, declared in 1971: "Please come and visit us again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't come and live here." Surprisingly, the migration to the Northwest is still...
"The great elephant," Leonardo da Vinci wrote, "has by nature qualities which rarely occur among men: namely probity, prudence, and the sense of justice and of religious observance." Later zoologists in Africa have noticed more human traits in Loxodonta africana -long childhoods and close nuclear families, high intelligence and a...
McPhee wrote "Coming Into the Country" in three sections, corresponding to different parts of Alaska and to different periods in McPhee's travels. The first section, "The Encircled River," is a more-or-less random introduction to Alaska, involving the reader in a trip through a circular system of rivers...
The well's importance goes far beyond that. Its discovery indicates that a major new gas-exploration effort in the Tuscaloosa Sand geological formation of southern Louisiana is hitting pay zones. That promises new production not only for Louisiana but for an energy-hungry nation that counts natural gas...
Some readers have found McPhee's past choice of subjects eclectic to the point of anarchy: basketball, breeder reactors, canoes, conservation, oranges, Scottish lairds. McPhee points out the skein that links all this apparent disparity: "Just about everything I've written touches on subjects that interested me as...