Description: Gotham Unbound : The Ecological History of Greater New York, Paperback by Steinberg, Ted, ISBN 147674128X, ISBN-13 9781476741284, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "When Henry Hudson dropped anchor in 1609, Mannahatta was a vast forest inhabited by the Lenape Indians...Over the years it gave way to an onslaught managed by thousands, from Governor John Montgomerie, who turned water lots into land, and John Randel, who imposed the grid plan on Manhattan, to Robert Moses, Donald Trump, and Michael Bloomberg...Here, in full, glorious detail is an epic 400 years in the making. It is the story of New York's struggle with the natural world, of the lives and decisions thattransformed waterscape and landscape so as to accommodate 6 percent of the nation's entire population. It is the story of Gotham Unbound." -- Book jacket.
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Book Title: Gotham Unbound : the Ecological History of Greater New York
Number of Pages: 544 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Topic: Historical Geography, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Ecology, Regional
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 1.5 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Nature, History
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Author: Ted Steinberg
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
