John McPhee Audio Books

Rising From the Plains creates a fascinating picture of the interdependence of geology, commerce, and culture....

To geologists, rocks are beautiful, roadcuts are windowpanes, and the earth is alive, a work in progress....

Those who have traveled into America's only remaining frontier rarely come back out the same....

For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction....

Few fish are as beloved, or as obsessed over, as the American shad....

John McPhee's Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former World takes readers on mind-expanding adventures in geology....

The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher.

For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction....

Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.

A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a magazine article, but John McPhee kept encountering so much irresistible information that he wrote a book.