Biblioracle: Reading can help you explore the world. John McPhee’s ‘Tabula Rasa’ is just such a book.

Biblioracle: Reading can help you explore the world. John McPhee’s ‘Tabula Rasa’ is just such a book.

At 92 years old and a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1963, McPhee’ s explorations have literally been all over the map. Sometimes he is bringing interesting people to us, such as in his first book,“ A Sense of Where You Are,” about a young Bill Bradley when he was a college basketball star and Rhodes scholar, not yet an NBA Hall of Famer and U.S. Senator.