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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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