John McPhee has published more than thirty books and much of his work first appeared in the pages of
The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1963. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, winning in 1999 for
Annals of the Former World. McPhee teaches non-fiction writing at Princeton University.
Most people think of the American state of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that sits just west of New York City. But in the centre of the state lies a vast wilderness – larger than most national parks – which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens....
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