The Pine Barrens

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1981. Special Edition with Photographs, First printing [stated]. Bill Curtsinger (Photographer). [10], 149, [1] pages plus about 60 pages of photographs at the end. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. Author's addendum. Signed by Curtsinger on title page and inscribed by him on half-title page. For this special edition, Bill Curtsinger hiked, paddled, and drove his way through four seasons in the pines. He has made pictures of forests and streams, of wildlife, of cranberry bogs and blackberry fields, of people who work the harvests and of the sparse, indigenous "pineys". Bill Curtsinger was born in Philadelphia in 1946. After college he became a member of the elite Navy photo unit, The Atlantic Fleet Combat Camera Group, during the Vietnam War. Specializing in underwater subjects, he has photographed for National Geographic magazine, plus dozens of publications worldwide. Curtsinger is a founding member of the Maine-based art group "10 x 10." The text of The Pine Barrens originally appeared in The New Yorker. John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American writer, widely considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction and he won that award on the fourth occasion in 1999 for Annals of the Former World (a collection of five books including two of his previous Pulitzer finalists). In 2008 he received the George Polk Career Award for his "indelible mark on American journalism during his nearly half-century career." Since 1974, McPhee has been the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. The Pine Barrens is a book about the history, people and biology of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The book is an early example of McPhee's acclaimed creative nonfiction literary style.