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# The Control of Nature
- URL: https://www.meghantheengineer.com/bookshelf/the-control-of-nature/
- Published: 2026-09-05T21:41:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-05T22:36:53.000Z
- Description: John McPhee, 1989
- Author: Meghan Walter
- Tags: Reading, Non-fiction, #Import 2026-09-05 14:48

Books On Tape · 1989 · 272 pages · [ISBN 884591139X](https://openlibrary.org/isbn/884591139X?ref=meghantheengineer.com)

McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.

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