Pine Barrens - John McPhee - Livres - Farrar, Straus and Giroux - 9780374514426 - 1 mai 1978
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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 the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of one kind or another have gradually moved in, so that now the central and integral forest is reduced to about a thousand square miles. Although New Jersey has the heaviest population density of any state, huge segments of the Pine Barrens remain uninhabited. The few people who dwell in the region, the ?Pineys,? are little known and often misunderstood. Here McPhee uses his uncanny skills as a journalist to explore the history of the region and describe the people?and their distinctive folklore?who call it home.

176 pages

Médias Livres     Paperback Book   (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé)
Validé 1 mai 1978
ISBN13 9780374514426
Éditeurs Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 176
Dimensions 209 × 138 × 13 mm   ·   180 g
Langue et grammaire Anglais  
Illustrateur Graves, James

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