

Irons in the Fire
Author: John McPhee
Narrator: Nelson Runger
Unabridged: 7 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/27/2008
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections
Author: John McPhee
Narrator: Nelson Runger
Unabridged: 7 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/27/2008
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections
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.
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This is a book of essays by John McPhee published in 1997, but which originally appeared in The New Yorker, where I probably read all of them at one time or another during the last twenty years. Irons in the Fire is clearly a part of the author's geology period. The pieces admired the most were "The......more