The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
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ANCHOR
- EAN:
9780385495080
- ISBN:
0385495080
- Pagine:
- 224
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
Imagine a grunge nort 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.
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