The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City

by Robert Sullivan

2021-01-01 10:21:09

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 Y... Read more
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. Less

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