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The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City Paperback - 1999
by Robert Sullivan
This grunge north Jersey version of John McPhee's classic "The Pine Barrens" celebrates the "natural (and unnatural) beauties of a wasteland" ("San Francisco Chronicle").
First line
WHENEVER I'M IN NEW YORK AND I HAVE A LITTLE TIME ON my hands, I grab a backpack and some maps and a compass and maybe some lunch and I hike through Times Square and up the stairs of the Port Authority Bus Terminals, where I catch a bus out to the Meadowlands.
From the jacket flap
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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- Title The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
- Author Robert Sullivan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A
- Date July 20, 1999
- Features Maps
- ISBN 9780385495080 / 0385495080
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.5 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.27 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New Jersey
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Hackensack Meadowlands (N.J.) - Description, Sullivan, Robert - Travel - New Jersey -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99023159
- Dewey Decimal Code 917.492
Excerpt
Media reviews
Citations
- Ingram Advance, 08/01/1999, Page 72
- New York Times, 08/15/1999, Page 28
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