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  • Los niveles del juego

    de John McPhee ...
    Traducido por David Paradela ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $279 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Pine Barrens

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $161 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Coming into the Country

    Travels in Alaska

    de 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 - ... Leer más

    $161 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • 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 ... Leer más

    $617 MXN

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  • Encounters with the Archdruid

    Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies

    de John McPhee ...
    The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard ... Leer más

    $176 MXN

  • Oranges

    de 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, ... Leer más

    Antes $212 MXN Ahora $177 MXN

  • Levels of the Game

    de 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 ... Leer más

    Antes $201 MXN Ahora $167 MXN

  • Tabula Rasa

    Volume 1

    de 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 ... Leer más

    Antes $212 MXN Ahora $177 MXN

  • Draft No. 4

    On the Writing Process

    de John McPhee ...
    The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacherDraft No. 4 is a master class on the writer’s craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers ... Leer más

    Antes $210 MXN Ahora $176 MXN

  • They're in the River (Picador Shorts)

    de John McPhee ...
    Series series Picador Shorts
    **A master chronicler of American life introduces us to the iconic and most curious American shad.A pithy, humorous, and illuminating standalone extract from John McPhee’s twenty-sixth book, The Founding Fish.**McPhee, himself a shad fisherman, recounts the fascinating life and ways of this great American wayfarer, most famous for its Odyssean journey as it leaves the ocean in crowds of millions, ... Leer más

    $157 MXN

  • The Survival of the Bark Canoe

    de John McPhee ...
    In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of ... Leer más

    Antes $212 MXN Ahora $177 MXN

  • The Control of Nature

    de John McPhee ...
    While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with ... Leer más

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