The Pine Barrens (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John McPhee
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Nature
- Genres: Nonfiction, Nature writing
- Subjects: Forests or forestry, Ecology, Environment or environmental health, Wildlife, Geography, Outdoor life
Form and Content
John McPhee is one of the most accomplished and respected prose artists writing in English. The Pine Barrens is perhaps his most well-known work, and in many respects it exhibits to best advantage the salient characteristics of all of his writing. First, the subject is a modest one for an essay: McPhee does not choose for his subjects the famous, the newsworthy, the popular, or the attractive. Instead, he writes about the places, people, and events that lie just below the level of popular consciousness, and he writes about them in a way that...
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