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The Pine Barrens
The Pine Barrens
Author: John McPhee
Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. — The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374233600
ISBN-10: 0374233608
Publication Date: 5/12/1968
Pages: 157
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
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This is a fascinating book about New Jersey's Pine Barrens. You would never think that such a large area of undeveloped land would exist in New Jersey.
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McPhee is a classic nature writer and this is one of his better books. From the Ballentine Walden Edition Library it was released about the same time as Diet for a Small Planet, Malabar Farm, and Sand County Almanac. A lost treasure of the early environmental literature of our nation.
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A portrait of wilderness in the path of urban growth. An outstanding reading experience. It is a conservation classic.


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