Coming into the Country (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John McPhee
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Cultural criticism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: Alaska
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Nature, Lifestyles, Land settlement, Cities or towns, Exploration or explorers, Snow
Form and Content
Coming into the Country is divided into three sections, arranged to provide different perspectives on the history of Alaska and on what it was like during the early 1970’s. This was a time of great change for the largest and least populous state of the United States. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971) had brought an end to homesteading, and even in the most thinly populated areas of the state there was little or no land available for potential settlers; the state was in the process of deciding which areas of federal land it would take as...
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