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Most people think of New Jersey as a suburbanindustrial corridor that runsbetween New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a nearwilderness larger than most national parks which has been known since theseventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover thearea and to the quality of the soils below which are too sandy and acid to begood for farming. On all sides however developments of one kind or anotherhave gradually moved in so that now the central and integral forest is reducedto about a thousand square miles. Although New Jersey has the heaviestpopulation density of any state huge segments of the Pine Barrens remainuninhabited. The few people who dwell in the region the Pineys are littleknown and often misunderstood. Here McPhee uses his uncanny skills as ajournalist to explore the history of the region and describe the peopleandtheir distinctive folklorewho call it home. «
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