The Pine Barrens
Most people think of the American state of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that sits just west of New York City. But in the centre of the state lies a vast wilderness - larger than most national parks - which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acidic for farming. But below its soil rests a 17 trillion gallon aquifer which contains some of the purest water in the country, leading it to become reconginsed as both a national and an international preserve. Altho…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-911547-17-4
- EAN: 9781911547174
- Produktnummer: 27641160
- Verlag: Daunt Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 170 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 381 KB
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John McPhee has published more than thirty books and much of his work first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1963. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, winning in 1999 for Annals of the Former World. McPhee teaches non-fiction writing at Princeton University.
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