The Control of Nature by John McPhee [FIRST EDITION] 1989

The Control of Nature by John McPhee 

FIRST EDITION / SECOND PRINTING [1989] FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  

Mild spot of water damage to underside of front of DJ [slight rippling] -- otherwise Very Good.

Book reads like new;  cloth cover has a very faint corresponding water stain to lower-right corner. 

The Control of Nature is a 1989 book by John McPhee that chronicles three attempts to control natural processes. It is divided into three long essays, "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains".