The Pine Barrens Author:John McPhee New Jersey's population density, at one-thousand persons per square mile, is the highest in the nation. Yet in South Central New Jersey there is an area of 650,000 acres which has a population of only a few thousand people-the Pine Barrens. John McPhee's portrait of that land and its people is a unique blend of folklore and the natural process... more »es he found there.« less
This is a fascinating book about New Jersey's Pine Barrens. You would never think that such a large area of undeveloped land would exist in New Jersey.
McPhee is a classic nature writer and this is one of his better books. From the Ballentine Walden Edition Library it was released about the same time as Diet for a Small Planet, Malabar Farm, and Sand County Almanac. A lost treasure of the early environmental literature of our nation.