

The Founding Fish
Author: John McPhee
Narrator: John McPhee
Unabridged: 14 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/15/2008
Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Animals, Sports & Recreation, Fishing
Author: John McPhee
Narrator: John McPhee
Unabridged: 14 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/15/2008
Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Animals, Sports & Recreation, Fishing
John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, and in the years since, he has written over thirty books, including Oranges, Coming into the Country, The Control of Nature, The Founding Fish, Uncommon Carriers, and Silk Parachute. Encounters with the Archdruid and The Curve of Binding Energy were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Read anything (and there's a LOT!) by John McPhee. My selection as the best American word/sentence craftsman. About every 10 pages he comes up with a sentence that just stuns. The best of the founders of New Journalism - and that's saying something! Just pick a topic you'd like to learn about. Better......more