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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a Cityby Robert Sullivan
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Imagine a grunge 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. Review:"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 Review:"It's full of odd, compelling stories and is often hilarious. In short, it's a delight." Men's Journal Review:"A different kind of search for the diverting sublime... what a tremendous feat of the imagination! To celebrate the natural (and unnatural) beauties of a wasteland!" San Francisco Chronicle Review:"A fine, intrepid work of reporting that finds revelations...in a stubbornly wild marshland in the middle of the megalopolis. The Meadowlands is funny, interesting, surprising, and bizarre." Ian Frazier Review:"Does for the Meadowlands, where creeks can be the color of antifreeze, what Thoreau did for Walden Pond." USA Today Review:"The 20th century has done its worst by the Meadowlands, but as Sullivan superbly demonstrates, there is life in the old landscape yet, a friskiness that shakes off into the clayey muck the hellspawn of progress." Kirkus Reviews About the AuthorRobert 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. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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