The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City Tapa dura - 1998

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Scribner, 1998. hardcover. Like New. 4x1x6.

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Scribner, 1998. hardcover. Like New. 6x0x9.

Scribner Book Company, 1998. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 6x0x9. I like to think of the Meadowlands as an undesignated national park, writes Robert Sullivan in his end-of-the-millennium take on Thoreau. In The Meadowlands, Sullivan does his Thoreauvian bean-counting in one of America's most infamous dumping grounds, the huge tract of marshy land just outside New York City that has withstood any and all attempts to subdue it with agriculture, industry, development, and an ever-shifting deluge of flotsam and jetsam. He may just be the first person in a century to willingly explore this fascinating but abused piece of real estate, and his investigation gives new meaning to intrepid reporting. By foot he tramps through the muck, and by canoe he navigates polluted rivers and marshes, noting the variegated species of trash and industrial cast-offs with as much zeal as he observes the surprisingly rich diversity of wildlife. Revealed in these stories is a landscape bursting with nature amid the curious… Leer más

Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Scribner, 1998. 220pp. Notes. Light wear, DJ:light wear.. 1st. Hb. VG+/VG.

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