The Pine Barrens Author:John McPhee In south central New Jersey there is an area of 650000acres which has a population of only a few thousand people - the Pine Barrens. John McPhee's portrait of that land and its people is a unique blend of folkloreand the natural processes he found there.
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.
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.