Up River - Couverture rigide

Center For Land Use Interpretation

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0922233292 ISBN 13 : 9780922233298

Editeur : Blast Books,U.S., 2008

Synopsis

Millions of people in New York and New Jersey consider the Hudson River as familiar as their own backyard yet only have a superficial knowledge of the landscape and land use of this river's waterfront. This beautiful book deepens readers' understanding with an aerial portrait of the river's shores from the Battery, at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, to the river's origin near Albany. Focusing on man-made sites rarely seen by those who travel along the river's banks -- some of which can only be seen aerially -- the book showcases the shore area's vanishing (or vanished) avenues, prisons, power plants, quarries, parks, condos, and redevelopments. Up River's photos and accompanying succinct text tell the story of how this river was used in developing industry and modern America from Revolutionary times through 19th-century exploitation of the waterfront to the beginnings of environmental activism that protects famous vistas from the quarriers of the Palisades.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blast Books,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0922233292
• ISBN 13: 9780922233298
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible