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...JOHN McPHEE and ALFRED EISENSTAEDT...
ENCOUNTERS WITH THE ARCHDRUID by John McPhee. 245 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...haired druid, ecologist and outdoorsman who guided the Sierra Club during its rise to national prominence as a scourge of dam builders and redwood cutters, is the subject. The glitter in such a man's eyes can make it difficult to get a clear look at him, but McPhee had the happy notion of confronting Brower with three of his ideological enemies on threatened terrain-Glacier Peak Wilderness in the state of Washington, Georgia's Cumberland Island and finally, on a raft trip down the Colorado River. In the process Brower and his antagonists are revealed as subtly...
...Charles Mohr, Reporters Israel Shenker and John Noble Wilford, to name only a few, are former TIME correspondents or writers. So are Editor T George Harris of Psychology Today, syndicated Newsday Columnist Nick Thimmesch, Michael Demarest, an editorial executive at Playboy, New Yorker Writers Calvin Trillin and John McPhee, Alvin M. Josephy of American Heritage. The pseudonymous financial analyst "Adam Smith," author of the bestselling The Money Game, wrote for our Business section under his real name, George J.W. Goodman, before becoming editor of The Institutional Investor. Syndicated Hollywood Columnist Joyce Haber is a former TIME researcher and correspondent...
...with the responsibility to maintain at his own expense a broad range of social and economic services. At that time the island cost ? 10,000 a year to keep going. Through economies, the island produce, including cattle and sea kale, is now just about able to support the inhabitants. McPhee likes Strathcona (rather better than his tenants do) and sympathizes with his problems. But he notes that Strathcona's cutbacks in coal and electricity, plus lack of economic opportunity, promise to reduce the population still further. Soon there may be no more than 70 living people among the countless...