Pieces of the Frame Author:John McPhee Subjects familiar to McPhee's readers--sport, Scotland, conservation--are central to this gathering of eleven factual stories, which comprise the writer's second collection. From the backwoods of Georgia to Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico to the rivers of Perthshire and Banff, McPhee's peregrinations and encounters become our own. As Edward Hoagland... more » wrote in The New York Times, "One has the sense always with McPhee of a man at a pitch of pleasure in his work, a natural at it, finding out on behalf of the rest of us how some portion of the world works."« less
A good collection of essays - a bit dated in their content (the first is when Jimmy Carter was still Governor of Georgia) but the quality of the writing and the skill of story-telling still shines through.