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About the Author
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, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) 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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“The usual--that is to say, terrific--McPhee treatment, in which the author surrenders to his subject and conquers it: in this case, the merchant marine of the United States.” ―The New York Times Book Review
“Remarkably adroit and compelling...the sea seems to be his natural home.” ―William Warner, The Washington Post Book World
“McPhee makes Captain Paul McHenry Washburn one of the most memorable men of sea literature.” ―Stephen Jones, Chicago Tribune
“Looking for a Ship is not a treatise on the decline of the American merchant marine, any more than Moby-Dick was meant to be a Journal off Commerce report on the whaling industry...Style is what McPhee is loaded down to the Plimsoll marks in: felicitous phrases, keen observation, the knack of unloading a cargo of information without hitting the reader on the head with a jumbo boom.” ―Richard F. Shepard, The New York Times
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- PublisherMcClelland & Stewart
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0921912099
- ISBN 13 9780921912095
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages241
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