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  • Los niveles del juego

    di John McPhee ...
    Tradotto da David Paradela ...
    Serie eBook 109 - Narrativas
    «Graebner está nervioso. Se mira los pies con aire sombrío. Estamos en Forest Hills, y este es uno de los partidos de semifinales del primer Abierto de Estados Unidos. Tanto Graebner como Ashe son americanos.»Si existe un libro capaz de dividir a los lectores entre aquellos que corren el riesgo de contagiarse de la pasión por el tenis de una u otra forma, y aquellos que permanecen inmunes, es este ... Altre info

    12,99 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • The Pine Barrens

    di John McPhee ...
    Most people think of the American state of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that sits just west of New York City. But in the centre of the state lies a vast wilderness – larger than most national parks – which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils ... Altre info

    8,73 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • Coming into the Country

    Travels in Alaska

    di John McPhee ...
    'John McPhee is celebrated in America and all but unknown in this country. The volume I love most is Coming into the Country, an account of Alaska and the Alaskans. His genius is that he can write about anything.' - Robert Macfarlane In this unforgettable and astutely observed travel account, Pulitzer Prize-winner John McPhee journeys into the wild frontiers and frigid climate of Alaska - ... Altre info

    8,73 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • Tabula rasa

    Volume primo

    di John McPhee ...
    A una certa età ogni scrittore desidera essenzialmente una cosa: vuotare i propri cassetti, prima che lo faccia qualcun altro. Non sempre ne vale la pena, ma se i cassetti sono quelli di John McPhee, c’è il caso che contengano – be’, un nuovo, inimitabile, imprevedibile pezzo di John McPhee. ... Altre info

    1,99 €

  • Tennis

    di John McPhee ...
    Se c'è un libro in grado di dividere i lettori fra chi rischia di contrarre in una forma o nell'altra il morbo del tennis, e chi invece ne risulta immune, è questo. Dove si rivive, un punto dopo l'altro, la semifinale di Forest Hills 1968 fra Arthur Ashe e Clark Graebner – la prima disputata da un tennista nero agli albori dell'èra Open, ma anche e soprattutto la prima partita di tennis raccontata ... Altre info

    8,99 €

  • Oranges

    di John McPhee ...
    A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Florida's Indian River, the first orange barons, ... Altre info

    9,77 €

  • Looking for a Ship

    di John McPhee ...
    This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage. ... Altre info

    Era 11,01 € Ora 9,66 €

  • Levels of the Game

    di John McPhee ...
    Levels of the Game is John McPhee's astonishing account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968.It begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description while examining the backgrounds and attitudes which have molded the players' games."This may be the ... Altre info

    9,14 €

  • Silence So Deep It Rings

    A Desert Chronicle

    A powerfully evocative photographic chronicle of the high desert of the American WestSpanning almost all of Nevada and Utah and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming, the sparsely populated regions of the Great Basin and the Basin and Range Province have stories to tell—stories intimate and vast, familial, historical, and geological. In Silence So Deep It Rings, renowned landscape ... Altre info

    41,59 €

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  • Coming into the Country

    di John McPhee ...
    Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush.Readers of McPhee's earlier books will not be unprepared for his surprising shifts of scene ... Altre info

    10,91 €

  • Annals of the Former World

    di John McPhee ...
    Serie series Annals of the Former World
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion yearsTwenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists ... Altre info

    14,86 €

  • Tabula Rasa

    Volume 1

    di John McPhee ...
    A literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why.Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, dissident art in the Soviet Union, and an even wider variety of other subjects, he has ... Altre info

    9,77 €