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Title: The Pine Barrens by John McPhee, James Graves ISBN: 0-374-51442-9 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: New Jersey Reads The Pine Barrens
Comment: This amazing, still relevant book is the Main Selection for ONE BOOK NEW JERSEY- a state wide reading initiative that supports literacy and celebrates New Jersey's Libraries. John McPhee's elegant hand offers the whole world focused through the filter of the New Jersey Pine Barrens
** Check out all the details at www.OneBookNewJersey.org**
1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner and native New Jerseyan John McPhee spoke compellingly at the 'kick-off' press conference recently at the Princeton Public Library and mentioned that having the chance to revisit "The Pine Barrens" through the new statewide reading program has presented him with a rare opportunity. "One of the things in my work," he said, "is that you have to move on to the next thing. But I have a lot of nostolgia for the things I write about."
In "The Pine Barrens," Mr. McPhee combines detailed descriptions of the region's culture, ecology and history with anecdotes gleaned from meeting its residents through his travels.
Born and raised in Princeton and a professor at his alma mater, Princeton University, Mr. McPhee said the selection of his book is terrific. "I was really quite amazed that 40 years after I started in on it," it's still relevant, he said. "I'm glad it's alive."
A friend from his days at Princeton High School suggested the Pine Barrens as a subject, Mr. McPhee said. "He said there are holes in the ground so deep there's no bottom and the people, they're dangerous and all that," Mr. McPhee recalled.
The Pinelands, totaling 1.1 million acres and encompassing 22 percent of New Jersey's land area, is host to legends, myth and intrigue about its residents, sometimes referred to as the Pineys.
Mr. McPhee found no bottomless holes and discovered the Pine Barrens residents were "wonderful," and many strongly believed in the Jersey Devil and other myths.
Fortunately the Pine Barrens, a spectacular and unique part of the beautiful and varied state of NJ, has changed little in the 37 years since the book was published and ONE BOOK NEW JERSEY 2004 offers people a chance to read, re-read and discuss this essential and beautifully written piece of non-fiction.
At age of 15 it opened me up to the powerful world of non-fiction -- let it do the same for you!!
Rating: 4
Summary: outdated, but very informative
Comment: John McPhee's book about the still-wild region of New Jersey called the Pine Barrens is a must-read for anyone interested in ecology or regional culture. When it was written in 1967, a great disservice had been done to the people of the Pines (called "Pineys") through the release of studies claiming they were all slow, stupid, and inbred; McPhee did much to dispell these harmful myths. He also discusses the unique flora and fauna of the area, and the possibility of development, which fortunately never occured. I also recommend _Cranberry Queen_ by Kathleen DeMarco for a fictional taste of the Pine Barrens region.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful writer
Comment: I was introduced to the author when I was in college, in a class
about journalism and literature. McPhee isn't as well-known as he should be (unless you read _The New Yorker_). He is truly a
wonderful stylist, whose style is so smooth you barely know it's there. And his subjects! Here he deals with a huge forest--the "Pine Barrens" of the title--and those who live in it. And yet he is able to make this slim book fascinating from the first
page to the last (one of the reasons is because he digresses so much, and his digressions are engrossing). Pick up nearly
anything by McPhee. You won't be disappointed, I promise.
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Title: Oranges by John McPhee ISBN: 0374512973 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1975 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Crofter and the Laird by John McPhee ISBN: 0374514658 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee ISBN: 0374518734 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee ISBN: 0374516936 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Control of Nature by John McPhee ISBN: 0374522596 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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