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March 27, 1971

The New Yorker cover for March 27, 1971

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Encounters with the Archdruid—II: An Island

John McPhee

Part 2 of John McPhee’s Profile of the environmentalist and longtime head of the Sierra Club David Brower and the birth of the modern conservation movement.