Name: The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
Author: John McPhee

John McPhee

<span>This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's sucessive progenitors. </span>

The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed

Tabula Rasa: Volume 1

The Patch

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

Silk Parachute

Uncommon Carriers

The Founding Fish

Annals of the Former World

Irons in the Fire

The Second John McPhee Reader

The Ransom of Russian Art

Assembling California

Looking for a Ship

The Control of Nature

Rising from the Plains

Heirs of General Practice

In Suspect Terrain

La Place de la Concorde Suisse

Basin and Range

Coming Into the Country

The John McPhee Reader

The Survival of the Bark Canoe

Pieces of the Frame

The Curve Of Binding Energy

Giving Good Weight

Encounters with the Archdruid

The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island

Levels of the Game

A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles

Oranges

The Pine Barrens

The Headmaster

A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton

Crossing The Craton

The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed

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