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Availability:In StockContributor:John McPhee, James Graves (Illustrator)Publish date:1978-05-01Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374514426ISBN-10:374514429UPC:9780374514426Book Category:NatureBook Subcategory:Essays, Ecosystems & Habitats, PlantsBook Topic:Forests & Rainforests, TreesSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCFMT8PGWH

The Pine Barrens

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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374514426ISBN-10:374514429UPC:9780374514426Book Category:NatureBook Subcategory:Essays, Ecosystems & Habitats, PlantsBook Topic:Forests & Rainforests, TreesSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCFMT8PGWH

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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