The Pine Barrens
Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs 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.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 acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of one kind or another have gradually moved in, so that now the central and integral forest is reduced to about a thousand square miles. Although New Jersey has the heav…
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Weitere Autoren: Graves, James (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-0-374-51442-6
- EAN: 9780374514426
- Produktnummer: 9405927
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1978
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.2 cm 191 g
- Gewicht: 191
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John McPhee, illustrated by James Graves
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