In a short essay, this author wrote that a story in which his mother shoved a sandwich down his throat after he tried to hide it in a snowbank was a "total fabrication." A book by this author begins with him paddling along an "encircled river" and includes biographical sketches of people like the tanner Donna Kneeland in the town of Eagle, Alaska. This man's most famous book grounds the ideas of several scientists in lengthy biographical digressions, including excerpts f
In a short essay, this author wrote that a story in which his mother shoved a sandwich down his throat after he tried to hide it in a snowbank was a "total fabrication." A book by this author begins with him paddling along an "encircled river" and includes biographical sketches of people like the tanner Donna Kneeland in the town of Eagle, Alaska. This man's most famous book grounds the ideas of several scientists in lengthy biographical digressions, including excerpts from the Wyoming diaries of Miss Ethel Waxham, David Love's mother. That book by this author of begins with a "narrative table of contents" that outlines the conflicting opinions of Kenneth Deffyes and Anita Harris. In that book by this author of (*) Coming into the Country, Harris critiques plate tectonics in the section "In Suspect Terrain." In that book, this author describes "Crossing the Craton" of America by driving along I-80 and watching geologists work. For 10 points, name this pioneer of creative nonfiction who wrote Annals of the Former World.
In a short essay, this author wrote that a story in which his mother shoved a sandwich down his throat after he tried to hide it in a snowbank was a "total fabrication."
John (Angus) McPhee