The Pine Barrens - Hardcover

McPhee, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374233608 ISBN 13: 9780374233600

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1968

Synopsis

Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban industrial corridor 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.

About this title

Review:

"An outstanding reading experience." --Natural History

About the Author:

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 nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0374233608
• ISBN 13: 9780374233600
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 157