Martha's review
The MEADOWLANDS: WILDERNESS ADVENTURES AT THE EDGE OF A CITY
by Robert Sullivan
Martha's review
The MEADOWLANDS: WILDERNESS ADVENTURES AT THE EDGE OF A CITY by Robert Sullivan
Martha's review
rating:
bookshelves:
history,
natural-history,
new-jersey
recommended for: people from New Jersey
I liked this book. The Meadowlands has a pretty colorful history, what with pig farms, pirates, pieces of New York City and World War II-era London hidden inside, long-gone cedar forests and flower farms, garbage dumps, and of course, dead bodies. But it might be of limited interest to anyone who didn't grow up in north Jersey. Everyone might not be fascinated by the sections on the history of mosquito control efforts in the Meadowlands, for instance, or the fight over Meadowlands development, or the building of the Pulaski Skyway (the bridge seen in the opening credits of The Sopranos). But Robert Sullivan does manage to write about everything in a fairly entertaining way so that even the section on mosquito control is more entertaining than it sounds. Even when he's covering a dry subject, a lot of the emphasis is on the people involved, many of whom are a little eccentric.
