Coming into the Country
By John McPhee
John McPhee's portrait of Alaska in the 1970s unfolds in three parts. In the first he travels by canoe and kayak down the Salmon River in the Brooks Range; in the second he joins a committee touring sites for a relocated state capital. The third and longest part settles around Eagle, on the upper Yukon River, portraying the trappers, miners, homesteaders and Native residents who live in the bush and their quarrels over land and government.
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- Tim Ferriss: “In the minds of many non-fiction writers, John McPhee is a god... For Coming Into the Country specifically, which was about his time primarily in Alaska. John McPhee is so good at non-fiction writing.”