Editing John McPhee (section)

=== Books ===
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|''[[A Sense of Where You Are|A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren Bradley]]'' ||<!--January 1, -->1965 ||New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-51485-2}} || A profile of Hall of Fame basketball player and [[Rhodes Scholar]] [[Bill Bradley]].
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|''[[The Headmaster (book)|The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield]]'' || <!--November 21, -->1966 || {{nowrap| New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux}} {{ISBN|0-374-16860-1}} || Biography of [[Frank Boyden]], long time headmaster of [[Deerfield Academy]].
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|''Oranges'' || <!--February 20, -->1967 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-22688-1}} || The history and significance of the farming of oranges, how farmers have struggled with frost and how horticulturists have introduced new breeds of citrus.
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|''[[The Pine Barrens (book)|The Pine Barrens]]'' || <!--May 12, -->1968 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-23360-8}} || The story of the near wilderness central area of [[New Jersey]], known since the seventeenth century as the [[New Jersey Pine Barrens|Pine Barrens]].
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|''A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles'' || <!--October 17, -->1968 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-51501-8}} || Collection.
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|''[[Levels of the Game]]'' || <!--September 23, -->1969 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-51526-3}} || Explores the relationship between two tennis players, [[Arthur Ashe]] and [[Clark Graebner]], and their tennis match at [[1968_US_Open_(tennis)|Forest Hills]] in 1968.
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|''The Crofter and the Laird'' || <!--June 1, -->1970 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-13192-9}} || A memoir of the author's stay with his family on the island of [[Colonsay]] in [[Scotland]], where his forebears had been raised.
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|''[[Encounters with the Archdruid]]''  || <!--August 6, -->1971 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-14822-8}} || Discussions in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon - with "Archdruid" [[David Brower]], founder of [[Friends of the Earth]].
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|''Wimbledon''  || 1972 || New York: The Viking Press<br />{{ISBN|0-670-77079-5}} || Contains two essays – "Hoad on Court 5" (originally published in 1971 as "Centre Court" and collected in ''Pieces of the Frame'') and "Twynam of Wimbledon" (originally published in 1968 and collected in ''A Roomful of Hovings'') – and photographs by [[Alfred Eisenstaedt]].
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|''The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed'' || <!--January 1, -->1973 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-51635-9}} || Story of the [[AEREON 26|Aereon]], a combination [[Heavier-than-air aircraft|aerodyne]]/[[airship|aerostat]], a.k.a. [[hybrid airship]].
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|''The Curve of Binding Energy'' || <!--May 22, -->1974 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-13373-5}} || Traveling American nuclear institutions with [[Ted Taylor (physicist)|Theodore Taylor]], one of the founders of those technologies. Finalist for the National Book Award.<ref name=nba1975/>
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|''Pieces of the Frame'' || <!--June 23, -->1975 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-51498-4}} || Collection.
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|''The Survival of the Bark Canoe'' || <!--November 24, -->1975 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-27207-7}} || The story of the ancient craft of making birch-bark canoes, still practiced by a builder in a small town in New Hampshire.
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|''The John McPhee Reader'' || 1976 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-17992-1}} || Collection of excerpts from his first twelve books, edited by William L. Howarth.
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|''[[Coming into the Country]]'' || <!--December 1, -->1977 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-52287-1}} || The story of Alaska and the Alaskans.
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|''Giving Good Weight'' || <!--November 26, -->1979 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-16306-5}} || Collection. Title story is about New York City's [[Greenmarket]]s in 1976-1977.
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|''Alaska: Images of the Country'' || 1981 || San Francisco: Sierra Club Books<br />{{ISBN|0871562901}} || Selections from ''Coming into the Country''. Photographs by [[Galen Rowell]].
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|''Basin and Range'' || <!--April 1, -->1981 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-10914-1}} || First in his 'Annals of the Former World' series of books on geology and geologists. Republished in ''Annals of the Former World''. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.<ref name=pulitzer/>
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|''In Suspect Terrain'' || <!--March 1, -->1983 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-17650-7}} || Second book in his 'Annals of the Former World' series on geology and geologists, from the outwash plains of Brooklyn to the Appalachian landscape. Republished in ''Annals of the Former World''.
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|''Annals of the Former World. Two Volumes. Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain'' || 1983 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux || Limited to 450 numbered copies signed by McPhee on the limitation page of each volume. Full cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Issued without dustjackets. Illustrated slipcase.
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|''La Place de la Concorde Suisse'' || <!--May 7, -->1984 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-18241-8}} || The study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. Also published as ''The Swiss Army''.
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|''Table of Contents'' || <!--October 7, -->1985 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-27241-7}} || Collection.
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|''Heirs of General Practice'' || <!--April 1, -->1986 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-51974-9}} || Stories of young doctors who specialize in family practice. Also included in the ''Table of contents'' collection.
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|''In the Highlands and Islands'' || 1986 || London: Faber and Faber<br />{{ISBN|0-571-14599-X}} || Contains "The Crofter and the Laird" and three essays from ''Pieces of the Frame'', all originally published in 1969 and 1970.
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|''Rising from the Plains'' || <!--November 17, -->1986 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-25082-0}} || Third book in his 'Annals of the Former World' series on geology and geologists, covering the Rockies and surrounding areas. Republished in ''Annals of the Former World''. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.<ref name=pulitzer/>
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|''Outcroppings'' || 1988 || Layton: Gibbs Smith<br />{{ISBN|0879052627}} || Writings on geology and ecology from ''Rising from the Plains'', ''Basin and Range'', and ''Encounters with the Archdruid''. Photographs by Tom Till. Edited by Christopher Merrill.
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|''[[The Control of Nature (book)|The Control of Nature]]'' || <!--August 16, -->1989 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-12890-1}} || Three stories: the US Army Corps of Engineers' efforts to control the waters of the Mississippi near New Orleans; townspeople in Iceland cooling flowing lava to prevent it from flowing into their town; and residents of Los Angeles attempting to control debris flows that roar down mountain canyons.
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|''Looking for a Ship'' || <!--September 15, -->1990 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-19077-1}} || The story of one of the last American merchant ships. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.<ref name=pulitzer/>
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|''Assembling California'' || <!--February 1, -->1993 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-10645-2}} || Fourth book in his 'Annals of the Former World' series on geology and geologists. Surveys throughout California and elsewhere, describing the geologic history of the land. Republished in ''Annals of the Former World''.
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|''The Ransom of Russian Art'' || <!--December 31, -->1994 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-24682-3}} || The story of how an [[Norton Dodge|American professor of Soviet economics]] managed to remove thousands of works of art in the 1960s and 1970s from the Soviet Union to the US.
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|''The Second John McPhee Reader'' || <!--February 28, -->1996 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-52463-7}} || Collection of excerpts from previously published nonfiction books and nonfiction essays, edited by Patricia Strachan.
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|''Irons in the Fire'' || <!--April 1, -->1997 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-17726-0}} || Collection of essays. The title essay describes a trip to Nevada where, accompanying a brand inspector, the author discovers that cattle rustling is still practiced.
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|''[[Annals of the Former World]]'' || <!--January 1, -->1998 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-10520-0}} ||  Compilation of four previously published books on geology, plus a final part,  "Crossing the Craton".  Winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1999.
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|''The Founding Fish'' || <!--October 13, -->2002 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-10444-1}} || The history of the shad, going back to the days of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau.
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|''The American Shad: Selections from ''The Founding Fish'' ''|| <!--March 1, -->2004 || Far Hills, N.J.: Meadow Run Press<br />{{ISBN|1-886967-14-8}} || Limited edition.
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|''Uncommon Carriers'' || <!--May 16, -->2006 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-28039-8}} ||Essays on travels by several unconventional means, primarily ocean and water freight transportation.
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|''Silk Parachute'' || <!--December 2, -->2010 || New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|0-374-26373-6}} || Collection.
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|''The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University'' || 2011 || Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press<br />{{ISBN|9780691143071}} || Edited with Carol Rigolot.
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|''Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process''
|2017
|New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN|9780374142742}}
|Essays that form a guide to writing long-form nonfiction
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|''The Patch''
|2018
|New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN| 978-0374229481}}
|His seventh collection of essays
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|''Tabula Rasa''
|2023
|New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />{{ISBN| 978-0374603601}}
|A collection of vignettes reflecting upon his writing career and projects he once planned to do but never got around to
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