City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan
- ISBN-10
- 1863252916
- ISBN-13
- 9781863252911
- Series
- City of Dreams
- Category
- British Americans
- Pages
- 594
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Random House Australia
- Author
- Beverly Swerling
Description
In 1661 a brother and sister staggered off a small wooden ship after eleven perilous weeks at sea to seek a new life in the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam. Lucas Turner was a barber surgeon; Sally an apothecary. Bound to each other by blood and necessity, gifted healers both, their new lives unfolded betrayal and murder that made them deadly enemies. Their descendents -- dedicated physicians and surgeons, pirates and whoremasters -- will shape the future of medicine and the growing city, but none can escape a vengeful legacy.City of Dreams follows the stories of the Turners and Devrys against the backdrop of the city where black slaves were burned alive on Wall Street; where James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams walked The Broad Way arguing America's destiny; and where one of the greatest hospitals in the world would be born in former shipwrights' workshops by the East River. Set against the panorama of a young country's struggle for freedom, rich in history and medical detail, it is an enthralling tale told by a master storyteller.
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- 2012-12-01
- 592 pages
- Paperback
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- 2021-11-09
- 328 pages
- Ebook
- University Press of Kentucky
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- 2019-07-09
- 384 pages
- Paperback
- Princeton University Press
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