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A roomful of Hovings and other profiles
John McPhee · 1968
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Profiles include: Thomas P. F. Hoving, art historian, sometime political influence, former floorwalker; the late Euell Gibbons, famous forager of edible wild plants and author of Stalking the Wild Asparagus; Carroll Brewster of the intrepid team of M.I.T. Fellows, in the Sudan; Robert Twynam, tender of the lawn at Wimbledon; and Temple Fielding, mercurial and influential author of the popular travel guides to Europe.
Book details
- Year
- 1968
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 10
- Pages
- 250
- ISBN
- 9780374515010
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