...lifestyle, largely due to park service policies and law," O'Neill said. The writer was inspired partly by author John McPhee's Yukon writings from the 1970s and 1980s. National Park Service policies began to change in 1980, when the Alaska...

...lifestyle, largely due to park service policies and law," O'Neill said. The writer was inspired partly by author John McPhee's Yukon writings from the 1970s and 1980s. National Park Service policies began to change in 1980, when the Alaska...

...decades in remote cabins on the Tatonduk and Yukon rivers near Eagle. He became known nationwide as a major character in John McPhee's best-selling book about Alaska, "Coming Into the Country." Troopers say Cook drowned accidentally, but had...

...decades in remote cabins on the Tatonduk and Yukon rivers near Eagle. He became known nationwide as a major character in John McPhee's best-selling book about Alaska, "Coming Into the Country." Troopers say Cook drowned accidentally, but had...

...that readers will compare "Looking for Alaska" with John McPhee's "Coming into the Country," Jenkins complimented the competition with a qualifier. "I thought John McPhee did a wonderful book, but he went to only a few places...

...former poet laureate John Haines, Marjorie Kowalski Cole, Kim Rich and Dana Stabenow of Anchorage, Velma Wallis and John McPhee. Hanley and Kremers will host two panels based on themes from the book during the Wilderness Congress' Conservation...

...independence from the U.S. which according to him, was treating Alaska as though it was still a colony. The scenes in John McPhee's Coming Into The Country where Vogler canoed from one isolated cabin to another seeking votes were true to form...

...if they weren't born in Alaska, inevitably the conversation turns to "How did you come up here?" It's what John McPhee calls the "coming into the country" story, the title of his classic book on Alaska. In her "Tide, Feather, Snow...