Pine Barrens While the Wager had been

While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans

A National Book Award Longlist Selection

and the whole world becomes a playground

In the past decade

Pine Barrens While the Wager had beenMost people think of New Jersey as a suburban industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all