Axioms and McPhee

Unfortunately, I didn’t make it through the book Coming into the Country but I did read the John McPhee book In Suspect Terrain. I loved this book it was all about challenging the theories of how are Earth came together. The article that I talk about this week The Axiom’s by Peirce Lewis made me really think about this book. There were so many connections in this article that related to John McPhee’s book that I read. The book displayed many of Lewis’s axioms of observing the landscape. In Suspect Terrain John McPhee and his partner go on a drive for the East coast of the Appalachian Mountains to the tip of the Great Lakes. On this drive they observe the unique landscape to the ordinary landscape. They research each landscape along the way and using their techniques and knowledge of land. They talked about how the history has affected the land, they displayed an axiom of cultural unity, and also looked how a landscape reflect people’s behavior and even there society. It was really interesting in seeing how McPhee truly master at the concept of a viewing a landscape and all the elements around the landscape. McPhee gets the big point and overview of how landscape should be observed.