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April 3, 1971

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profiles

Encounters with the Archdruid—III: A River

John McPhee

Part 3 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.

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fiction

Engineer-Private Paul Klee Misplaces An Aircraft Between Milbertshofen And Cambrai, March 1916

Donald Barthelme