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The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City

The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert SullivanPublish date:1999-07-20Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780385495080ISBN-10:385495080UPC:9780385495080Book Category:Nature, TravelBook Subcategory:Essays, Ecology, United StatesSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCJ1S27254
Imagine a grungy north Jersey version of John McPhee's classic The Pine Barrens and you'll get some idea of the idiosyncratic, fact-filled, and highly original work that is Robert Sullivan's The Meadowlands. Just five miles west of New York City, this vilified, half-developed, half-untamed, much dumped-on, and sometimes odiferous tract of swampland is home to rare birds and missing bodies, tranquil marshes and a major sports arena, burning garbage dumps and corporate headquarters, the remains of the original Penn Station--and maybe, just, maybe, of the late Jimmy Hoffa. Robert Sullivan proves himself to be this fragile yet amazingly resilient region's perfect expolorer, historian, archaeologist, and comic bard.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780385495080ISBN-10:385495080UPC:9780385495080Book Category:Nature, TravelBook Subcategory:Essays, Ecology, United StatesSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCJ1S27254
Robert Sullivan has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Outside, Condé Nast Traveler, and Vogue, where he is a contributing editor. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and two children.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

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