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A Roomful of Hovings And Other Profiles
John McPhee collects four biographical profiles and a group portrait of MIT Fellows in Africa. The essays profile Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving, Euell Gibbons, Robert Twynam, and Temple Fielding, using their own voices to tell most of the stories.
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John McPhee
Farrar, Straus
McPhee
Africa
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Hoving
Temple Fielding
Europe