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The control of nature

Name: The control of nature
Author: John McPhee

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McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.

Subjects: Nature
Human beings
Environmental protection
Effect of human beings on
Nature, effect of human beings on
Man

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