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The Pine Barrens

The Pine Barrens

Graves, James
McPhee, John

Paperback

Environmental StudiesLawns, Trees, & ShrubsNature Writing

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0374514429
ISBN13: 9780374514426
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: May 1 1978
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

It will be a long time before another book appears to equal the literary quality and human compassion of this one. --The New York Times Book Review

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 John 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.

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