| Description |
220 pages : map ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Snake hill -- An achievement of the future -- Gone with the wind -- Walden swamp -- Valley of the garbage hills -- Skeeters -- Treasure -- Digging -- Bodies -- The trapper and the fisherman -- Point-no-point |
| Summary |
"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."--P. [4] of cover |
| Subject |
Sullivan, Robert, 1963- -- Travel -- New Jersey -- Hackensack Meadowlands
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| SUBJECT |
Sullivan, Robert, 1963- fast (OCoLC)fst00396632 |
| Subject |
Travel.
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| SUBJECT |
Hackensack Meadowlands (N.J.) -- Description and travel
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| Subject |
New Jersey -- Hackensack Meadowlands.
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| LC no. |
99023159 |
| ISBN |
0385495080 |
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9780385495080 |
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