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Farrar Straus Giroux, NY. 'First printing, 1985'. Eight pieces written between 1981 and 1984, all of which first appeared in The New Yorker: Under the Snow (Pennsylvania black bears in hibernation); A Textbook Place for Bears (New Jersey); Riding the Boom Extension (arrival of telephones near the Arctic Circle); Heirs of General Practice ('new medical specialty called family practice'); Open Man (Senator Bill Bradley in New Jersey); Ice Pond (making & use of ice to conserve electrical energy); Minihydro (water turbines sell electricity to power companies); North of the C. P. Line (writer John McPhee's friend John McPhee of northern Maine, bush pilot, fish & game warden, writer). Stock#25657x/h.