TY  - BOOK
AU  - McPHEE, John
TI  - Control of nature
SN  - 0-374-52259-6
U1  - 363.7 MCP 22nd ed.
PY  - 1990///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  -  	      Environmental protection.     Nature -- Effect of human beings on.     Debris avalanches -- California -- Los Angeles.
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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
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