From Pulitzer Prize-winner John McPhee, author of The Founding Fish, comes the fascinating story of an often overlooked, yet vitally important part of America. This first-hand account of the transportation sector features evocative portraits of the m...

Uncommon Carriers

The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher.  Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights...

Draft No. 4

Few fish are as beloved, or as obsessed over, as the American shad. Although shad spend most of their lives in salt water, they enter rivers by the hundreds of thousands in the spring and swim upstream heroic distances in order to spawn, then return ...

The Founding Fish

An "album quilt", an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any book.  The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master. It is divided into two parts.  Part 1, "The Sporting ...

The Patch

A wondrous book of McPhee's prose pieces - in many aspects his most personal in four decades   The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute", which first appeared in The New Yorker over a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of ...

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