Looking for a Ship (23 page)

Authors: John McPhee

BOOK: Looking for a Ship

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Irons in the Fire
The Ransom of Russian Art
Assembling California
Looking for a Ship
The Control of Nature
Rising from the Plains
Table of Contents
La Place de la Concorde Suisse
In Suspect Terrain
Basin and Range
Giving Good Weight
Coming into the Country
The Survival of the Bark Canoe
Pieces of the Frame
The Curve of Binding Energy
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
Encounters with the Archdruid
The Crofter and the Laird
Levels of the Came
A Roomful of Hovings
The Pine Barrens
Oranges
The Headmaster
A Sense of Where You Are

The John McPhee Reader
The Second John McPhee Reader

Published in 1990 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Ciroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

www.fsgbooks.com

eISBN 9781429958110

First eBook Edition : June 2011

First paperback edition, 1991

The text of this book originally appeared in
The New Yorker.

The engraving on the title page and chapter openings is from the United States Coast Guard licenses to Masters of United States Steam or Motor Vessels of any Gross Tons upon Oceans.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

McPhee, John
,
1931â

Looking for a ship / John McPhee. â ist ed.. p. cm.

ISBN: 0-374-19077-1

1. Stella Lykes (Ship). 2. Seafaring life. 1. Title.

G540 .M365 1990

910.4'5 â dc20

90003311

Paperback ISBN: 978-0-374-52319-0