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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A core book in the canon of environmental writing. Funny and informative.  isetziol | Sep 25, 2008 |  The finest non-fiction book I have ever read, and very close to the top of the list of finest books of any kind I have ever read. This book of completely factual accounts of things that really happened and of information that is researched and verified contains more character, theme, and plot than most fictitious novels being written these days. Fascinating, educational, and quite moving, this is the book I most often recommend when I recommend books. I can't imagine how anyone could not enjoy it. And, as usual, McPhee predicts decades before the fact the crises facing us today. You won't be disappointed. (  ) clogbottom | Aug 12, 2008 | I find this to be slow going with small passages that read faster. I greatly enjoyed his Coming into the Country which described the ironies of Alaska so well. Perhaps the underlying problem/nightmare described in Archdruid is the depletion of our land due to overpopulation and the quandary of conservation vs. preservation, is what irks me. (  ) starynite | Jul 4, 2008 | One of the best non-fiction books I have ever read. The writing is superb. ( ) rickumali | Jun 28, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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Brower was in the thick of battle when John McPhee profiled him for the New Yorker in a piece that would evolve into Encounters with the Archdruid. McPhee follows Brower into unusually close combat as Brower faces down a geologist who is, it seems, convinced that there is no sight quite so elevating as that of a fully operational mine; a developer who (successfully, it turned out) sought to convert an isolated stretch of the Carolina coast into a resort for the moneyed few--and who provided the title for McPhee's book, wryly opining that conservationists are at heart druids who "sacrifice people and worship trees"; and, most formidable of all, former Interior Secretary Floyd Dominy, who oversaw the construction of a structure that for Brower stands as one of the most hated creations of our time, Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. McPhee offers up an engaging portrait of Brower, a man unafraid of a good fight in the service of the earth, making Encounters an important contribution to the history of the modern environmental movement. --Gregory McNamee
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