The Control of Nature

Third printing. Unclipped dust jacket. 272 pages. Faint foxing to fore edge. Tight binding and clean text block. Three stories: the US Army Corps of Engineers' efforts to control the waters of the Mississippi near New Orleans; townspeople in Iceland cooling flowing lava to prevent it from flowing into their town; and residents of Los Angeles attempting to control debris flows that roar down mountain canyons.I have other books by John McPhee, one of my favorite authors.