Edgartown - Couverture rigide

Riper, A Bowdoin Van; The Martha's Vineyard Museum

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1540233421 ISBN 13 : 9781540233424

Editeur : Arcadia Publishing Library Editions, 2018

Synopsis

Founded in 1642 as Great Harbor, Edgartown is the oldest of Martha's Vineyard's six townships. It has been a shire town and a center of learning, a whaling port and a fishing village, a manufacturing center and a mecca for sportsmen. Its gleaming captain's houses and majestic public buildings are a testament to the wealth that whaling brought to the island in the mid-1800s, but the end of New England whaling was far from the end of its story. Faced with the loss of the industry that had sustained it, Edgartown reinvented itself as a summer-centered community of resort hotels, bathing beaches, and genteel vacation homes. It welcomed the world to its shores and became an unlikely cultural icon--a backdrop to a best-selling memoir, a political scandal, and a blockbuster film--famous for being its inimitable self.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1540233421
• ISBN 13: 9781540233424
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 130
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible