Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York

Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York
ISBN-10
147674128X
ISBN-13
9781476741284
Series
Gotham Unbound
Category
History
Pages
544
Language
English
Published
2015-07-21
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
Ted Steinberg

Description

From Henry Hudson's discovery of Manhattan to Hurricane Sandy, Steinberg provides a sweeping ecological history of one of the most man-made spots on earth. He recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation's population. You will see the metropolitan area anew, not just as a dense urban goliath but as an estuary once home to miles of oyster reefs, wolves, whales, and blueberry bog thickets.

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