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Coming Into the Country
by John McPhee
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
As my first foray into John McPhee's extensive catalogue, this was a tough one.
His phrasing and sentence structure was, as expected, expertly curated, conveying information not just with his word choice, but also the pacing and organization of sentences and paragraphs.
*Coming Into the Country* was over 400 pages of the controversy of how to manage Alaska as the final American frontier.
He sourced opinions from federal land management, natives, and white, further subdivided into Alaskan born-and-raised and new arrivals.
The portrayal of all opinions was even-handed and couched in the context from which they arose and the lives of the people from which they came.
Overall, it was a well written piece, but I would recommend it primarily to those interested in the topic *a priori*.