Coming Into The Country

Coming into the Country is John McPhee's classic work of travel and nature writing about Alaska, first published in the 1970s and reissued by Daunt Books with a foreword by Robert Macfarlane.

McPhee journeys through the state's wilderness by foot, canoe, helicopter, and dog team, moving between remote bush country and small urban settlements.

Along the way he meets Alaska's inhabitants, from Athapaskan communities to settlers pursuing lives on the edge of the map, and records the landscape's natural wonders, from salmon-filled rivers of the Brooks Range to encounters with grizzly bears.

Often described as a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, it remains one of the defining books written about Alaska and the people who choose to live there.