John R Quinn

Fields of Sun and Grass

An Artist's Journal of the New Jersey Meadowlands

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the area where a heavily industrialized marsh complex meets the Hackensack River ecosystem, the author explores the history and environment of an urban wilderness. Line drawings introduce the animals and plants inhabiting it, providing an overview of an area dismissed as wasteland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780813524443
• ISBN-10: 081352444X
• Artikelnr.: 22339345

Autorenporträt

John R. Quinn is an artist-naturalist with more than forty years' experience. Born and raised in the Village of Ridgefield Park, located at the northern edge of New Jersey's Meadowlands, he has published ten books on nature and science. 

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  
Introduction  
Home Ground  
     Starting Point
          Home Ground Revisited
     Yesterday - 
          Lenapehoking
          The Golden Door
          Patriots, Loyalists, and Neutrals
          Of Mosquitoes and Men
          Railroads
          A "Monstrous Visual Symbol"
          A Gathering of Grackles
          Suburban Hawkeyes
          The Meadowsmen
     Today - 
          The View from the Turnpike
          The Oradell Dam and a Changing River
          Flight
     Tomorrow - 
          Grand Plan for the Meadowlands
          The HEART of the Meadowlands
          Taking Care of Business
          The Seventeen-Acre Dot in the Swamplands
          Flowers from Garbage
          Teach Your Children Well
          Message on an Observation-Blind Wall
          Postscript
Epilogue      
EXPLORING THE MEADOWLANDS  
By Boat    
Fishing      
On Foot    
Parks and Other Facilities  
Education    
BIBLIOGRAPHY  
INDEX