Control of nature /
McPHEE, John
Control of nature / John McPhee - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. - 272p. : ill. ; 21cm.
McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
0-374-52259-6
Environmental protection. Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Debris avalanches -- California -- Los Angeles.
363.7 MCP
Control of nature / John McPhee - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. - 272p. : ill. ; 21cm.
McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
0-374-52259-6
Environmental protection. Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Debris avalanches -- California -- Los Angeles.
363.7 MCP