John McPhee Audio Books

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

Author John McPhee embarks on a journey across the basement of the continent - the land masses forming Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and thereabouts - with a professor and geochronologist as a guide....

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

Fabulously entertaining and filled with the intriguing trivia of life, Irons in the Fire is another impeccably crafted collection of seven essays by John McPhee....

This first-hand account of the transportation sector features evocative portraits of the men and women who deliver our consumer and industrial goods....

Thirty years ago, the theory that continents are comprised of drifting plates - plate tectonics - evoked more scorn than serious research.....

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....

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....