John McPhee encountered Ulvi and Roberts two years after the couple’s arrival on the Yukon, when they were just getting the the hang of things.
"Coming into the Country"
“Made for me”: An Alaskan couple looks back at romance and upheaval in the wilderness
Corazza spent his first winter in the Alaska wilderness in 1975, when he was just 23. In “Coming into the Country,” John McPhee quotes Corazza saying he settled on the Alaska bush because “‘There ain’t no barbed wire up here.'”
From the bush to Congress, Willie Hensley straddles rural and urban divide in Alaska
Inupiaq politician, educator, reflects on the state 40 years ago and now
Even before leading John McPhee down the Salmon River, Pat Pourchot had his dream job
By 1975, when John McPhee showed up in Alaska, Pourchot was a skilled paddler, with three summers of river running experience behind him. But Pourchot had never heard of The New Yorker Magazine and didn’t have any idea who John McPhee was.
The lure of John McPhee’s “Coming into the Country,” 40 years later
To readers 40 years later, John McPhee’s 1977 book about Alaska “Coming into the Country” is still relevant and still popular.
Writer John McPhee was at ease in a canoe, Brad Snow was at ease with him
Brad Snow and his girlfriend Lilly Allen were living on the Yukon River when writer John McPhee came through. Snow and McPhee spent four days together in a canoe.
My name is River Wind: David Cornberg has the last word in “Coming into the Country”
John McPhee met 32-year-old David Cornberg when the young man went by the name River Wind and was about to travel down the Yukon in an aluminum canoe.
40 years later, John McPhee’s book still brings fans to Eagle, Alaska
John Borg hosts literary tourists who come through Eagle, Alaska, in the summer looking for characters from John McPhee’s book Coming into the Country.
When the sky was the limit: Former state Sen. Sturgulewski recalls late-1970s Alaska
Arliss Sturgulewski is one of dozens of Alaskans who make an appearance in John McPhee’s 1977 book “Coming into the Country.” The former state senator recalls her time on the Capital Site Selection Committee.
Alaska’s Energy Desk celebrates ‘Coming into the Country’
In January 2017, Alaska’s Energy Desk celebrates the 40th anniversary of Coming into the Country, John McPhee’s book that shared Alaska with the world.