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Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives about a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies Hardcover - 1971

by John McPhee


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Encounters with the Archdruid is a narrative nonfiction book by author John McPhee. The book is split into three parts, each covering environmentalist David Brower's confrontations with his ideological enemies. The book chronicles his struggles against miners, developers and finally the United States Bureau of Reclamation. McPhee blurs traditional journalism, the reporting of facts and accounting of events, with thematic elements more common to fiction. Throughout the work is devised to the contrasting perspectives and struggles within the weight of two conflicting characters.

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The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide.

First Edition Identification

Farrar, Straus and Giroux published a First Edition, First Printing in New York, 1971. The hardcover is bound in brown cloth with a gilt lettered spine. 


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  • Title Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives about a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
  • Author John McPhee
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Date 1971
  • ISBN 9780374148225 / 0374148228
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.62 x 5.62 x 0.95 in (21.89 x 14.27 x 2.41 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Wilderness areas, Conservation of natural resources
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 71154634
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.720

About the author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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