Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1971 • Farrar Straus Giroux

Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1971] FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Crisp dust jacket with some minor edge wear and some mild soiling to rear with a spot of sticker ghosting to upper-right corner.  Price clipped front panel.

Now housed in a new HQ custom-fit, brodart jacket protector.

Book itself is near mint.  Looks and reads like new. 

Beautiful copy. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses -- on a coastal island,in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Four men are involved: Charles Park, a mineral engineer who believes that our economic well-being rests on finding metals and extracting them from the earth wherever they are found; Charles Fraser, a resort developer who regards all conservationists as druids; Floyd Dominy, a builder of gigantic dams, who grew up in dry Western country and deeply believes in the impoundment of water; and David Brower, the most militant conservationist in the world. In turn, Park, Fraser, and Dominy encounter Brower -- now reserved, now friendly, now fighting hard across a philosophical divide...