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Author: Jim Wright Publisher: Schiffer Publishing ISBN: 9780764341861 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 0
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Celebrate the environmental restoration of the Meadowlands. For decades, New Jersey's Meadowlands have been known as mostly the home of the NFL's Giants and Jets, the place where Jimmy Hoffa is purportedly buried, or a wasteland that you passed through on your way somewhere else. Until recently, that reputation was deserved. The land was blighted with unregulated landfills and the Hackensack River so polluted that barnacles couldn't survive. Today, though, the 30.4-square-mile region has made a remarkable comeback. Located in Bergen and Hudson Counties and just five miles from Manhattan, the Meadowlands is a prime destination for birders, kayakers, and other nature lovers. In words and images, The Nature of the Meadowlands illuminates the region's natural and unnatural history, from its darkest days of a half-century ago to its amazing environmental revival. This is a great resource and beautiful keepsake for residents and visitors, tourists of New Jersey, nature lovers, and history buffs.
Author: Jim Wright Publisher: Schiffer Publishing ISBN: 9780764341861 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Celebrate the environmental restoration of the Meadowlands. For decades, New Jersey's Meadowlands have been known as mostly the home of the NFL's Giants and Jets, the place where Jimmy Hoffa is purportedly buried, or a wasteland that you passed through on your way somewhere else. Until recently, that reputation was deserved. The land was blighted with unregulated landfills and the Hackensack River so polluted that barnacles couldn't survive. Today, though, the 30.4-square-mile region has made a remarkable comeback. Located in Bergen and Hudson Counties and just five miles from Manhattan, the Meadowlands is a prime destination for birders, kayakers, and other nature lovers. In words and images, The Nature of the Meadowlands illuminates the region's natural and unnatural history, from its darkest days of a half-century ago to its amazing environmental revival. This is a great resource and beautiful keepsake for residents and visitors, tourists of New Jersey, nature lovers, and history buffs.
Author: Thomas Yezerski Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374349134 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 45
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The history of the Meadowlands, from its pristine state, to its gradual transformation by European settlers, to the pollution caused by industrialization, and the changes brought by environmental organizations striving to protect it.
Author: Robert Sullivan Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385495080 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 226
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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.
Author: Robert Sullivan Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385495080 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
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.
Author: Jim Wright Publisher: ISBN: 9780764359026 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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An illustrated biography of the ornithologist James Bond, the author of the book Birds of the West Indies and the namesake of Ian Fleming's fictional British spy.
Author: John Lewis-Stempel Publisher: Black Swan ISBN: 9780552778992 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 0
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_________________ 'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMES WINNER OF THE THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015 What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow's life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seasons from cowslips in spring to the hay-cutting of summer and grazing in autumn, and includes the biographies of the animals that inhabit the grass and the soil beneath: the badger clan, the fox family, the rabbit warren, the skylark brood and the curlew pair, among others. Their births, lives, and deaths are stories that thread through the book from first page to last.
Author: Louise Gluck Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0063117592 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 83
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of The Odyssey. Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting into an act of will; here, too, is a worldly Circe, a divided Odysseus, and a shrewd adolescent Telemachus. Through these classical figures, Meadowlands explores such timeless themes as the endless negotiation of family life, the cruelty that intimacy enables, and the frustrating trivia of the everyday. Gluck discovers in contemporary life the same quandary that lies at the heart of The Odyssey: the "unanswerable/affliction of the human heart: how to divide/the world's beauty into acceptable/and unacceptable loves."
Author: David Wheeler Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813549213 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 257
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Wild New Jersey brings the reader on a real-life safari through the Garden State's wildlife and natural wonders."-Tom Gilmore, President, New Jersey Audubon Society.
Author: Don Torino Publisher: ISBN: Category : Natural history Languages : en Pages : 150
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"Life in the Meadowlands is both educational and poetic. It takes place in a wetlands area of northern New Jersey which lies along the Atlantic Flyway, a major migration route for millions of birds. The Meadowlands have been subject to destruction for a few centuries. But in recent years, some small sections of it have been rehabilitated. The author, Don Torino, is a sage and tireless environmental leader. Don writes from the heart as his deep caring about nature intertwines with his whole life. The writing style combines essay with memoir and poetry. And the book consists of a variety of different topics such as birding, importance of native plants, habitat conservation and spiritual connection to nature. Life in the Meadowlands offers insightful views of how each of us impact our world and reminds us of the beauty around us. No matter where you live, this book will inspire you to take a closer look at the natural world around you and to take better care of it. It is difficult to explain what makes certain writing beautiful. It's hard to pinpoint what gives certain pieces that quality that allows readers to visualize the story vividly or to make them pause at certain points to think. But through this book, many people around the world will have the chance to really experience life in the Meadowlands." --
Author: Erik Kiviat Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498599923 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 461
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In a case study of urban biodiversity, Erik Kiviat and Kristi MacDonald present two decades of data and assessment of the habitats and biota of the Meadowlands. Urban Biodiversity: The Natural History of the New Jersey Meadowlands documents the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, butterflies, bees, dragonflies, seed plants, mosses, and lichens of the Meadowlands region and their patterns of occurrence. The work records the natural history of an urban-industrial region, helping decision- makers foster the biodiversity that thrives in cities and giving planners tools to reduce the biological degradation that occurs with urbanization. For more info, please visit this link: https://www.hudsonia.org/nj-meadowlands
Author: Jim Wright
Author: Jim Wright
Author: Thomas Yezerski
Author: Robert Sullivan
Author: Jim Wright
Author: John Lewis-Stempel
Author: Louise Gluck
Author: David Wheeler
Author: Don Torino
Author: Erik Kiviat