{"product_id":"table-of-contents-john-mcphee-9780374520083","title":"Table of Contents","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTable of Contents \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of eight pieces that range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in a small village near the Arctic Circle and the arrival of wild bears in considerable numbers in New Jersey, swarming in from the Poconos in search of a better life (\"Riding the Boom Extension,\" \"A Textbook Place for Bears\"). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"North of the C.P. Line\" the author introduces his friend John McPhee, a bush-pilot fish-and-game warden in northern Maine, who is also a writer. The two men met after the flying warden wrote to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ecomplaining that someone was using his name. Maine also is the milieu of \"Heirs of General Practice,\" McPhee's highly acclaimed report--virtually a book in itself--on the new medical specialty called family practice. Much of it takes place in the examining rooms of a dozen young physicans in various rural communities, where they are seen in the context of their work with a great many patients of all ages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo relatively short pieces revisit the subjects of earlier McPhee books. \"Ice Pond\" demonstrates anew the innovative genius of the physicist Theodore B. Taylor, who developed a way of making and using with impressive results in the conservation of the electrical energy. \"Open Man\" describes a summer day in New Jersey in the company of Senator Bill Bradley. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Minihydro,\" various small-scale entrepreneurs in New York State set up turbines at nineteenth-century mill sites and sell electricity to power companies. A nice little country waterfall can earn as much as two hundred dollars a year for someone with such a turbine. And, \"Under the Snow,\" McPhee Goes back into black bear's dens in Pensylvania in winter, where he becomes intoxicated with affection for some five-pound cubs. They remind him of his daughters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John McPhee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374520089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374520083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 5.66w x 1.00d","brand":"John McPhee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919606677759,"sku":"9780374520083","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_91a5fa46-beaa-48c5-ada1-7c17b7ee90a0.jpg?v=1680810327","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/table-of-contents-john-mcphee-9780374520083","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}