The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City

Imagine a grungy 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 07/20/1999
ISBN: 9780385495080
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.50d

Review Citations: New York Times 08/15/1999 pg. 28
Ingram Advance 08/01/1999 pg. 72 - Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 105