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Conspiracy, conspiracy, all is conspiracy, it creeps in this petty pace, Aah. But there's more, a one-man conspiracy, in fact, devoted only to the propagation of "seamless" prose, effortless to read. His name is John McPhee, he is perhaps the finest non-fiction in America, and he writes on anything, from oranges to flying machines, from tennis to bark canoes. [MORE]'s profile is not so finely crafted, but McPhee's light has been so long under the bushel basket that even this brief uncovering is dazzling...
...JOHN McPHEE 114 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...John McPhee has written whole, albeit slim books on oranges, the New Jersey pine barrens, Scottish weavers, an exotic flying machine called the Deltoid Pumpkin Seed, and the proliferation of that ultimate Saturday-night special, the cheap nuclear device. McPhee's The Levels of the Game is still the best book on tennis, in the same meticulous and quietly passionate way that makes A.J. Leibling's The Sweet Science the best book on boxing...
...McPhee, a fine birchbark is a marvel of craft and complex preindustrial technology that took centuries to perfect. "Their ribs, thwarts and planking suggested cabinetwork," he notes. "Their authenticity seemed built in, sewed in, lashed in, undeniable...
...when eating his homemade beef jerky. Vaillancourt is one of the last men in North America to make canoes the way the Eastern forest Indians made them. He is not only the keeper of an art but also an endangered species of American. In his " own beautifully crafted work, McPhee | treats both man and boat with all the respect and admiration their precarious I presence commands...