Tabula Rasa: Volume 1

Title: Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 Author: John McPhee ISBN: 9781250335708 Publisher: Picador Paper Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New Non-Fiction 1623245 Publisher Description: A literary legend's engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, dissident art in the Soviet Union, and an even wider variety of other subjects, he has consistently written narrative pieces of immaculate design. In Tabula Rasa, Volume 1, McPhee looks back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, reflecting wryly upon projects he once planned to do but never got around to--people to profile, regions he meant to portray. There are so