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The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
Imagine a grungy north 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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Anchor Books
- Publish Date: Jul 20th, 1999
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.20in - 0.50in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9780385495080
- Categories: • Essays• Ecology• United States - General
About the Author
Robert Sullivan has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Outside, Condé Nast Traveler, and Vogue, where he is a contributing editor. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and two children.
Praise for this book
"Provocative, audacious . . . by looking observantly, without trite moralizing, at the natural world . . . this book suggest a challenging new model for how we ought to pay attention." --Robert Pinsky, The New York Times Book Review "It's full of add, compelling stories and is often hilarious. In short, it's a delight." --Men's Journal