Edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571246656
Published:
30.10.2008
No of pages:
262
The Great Port
Jan Morris
Movement is the
raison d’etre
of New York. In
The Great Port
, Jan Morris explores the waterfronts and thoroughfares of 1950's Manhattan just as she navigated the canals of Venice; she knows every bridge, every tunnel, every island of the whole archipelago. She depicts the city as a place of constant motion, which has been translated into a culture of inveterate restlessness. First published in 1957,
The Great Port
is a vivid and entertaining portrait of a splendid old seaport whose purposes have gone awry.
When
The Great Port
appeared in New York, the
Wall Street Journal
called it ‘unique’, the
New York Times
said it discovered more than most New Yorkers had ever learnt, and the
Publisher’s Weekly
thought it perhaps the best book on New York since the classic work of E. B. White.
Tags
Categorised as:
Non-fiction
Sub-categories:
Travel
Places:
America;
New York
Genres & Themes:
Faber Finds;
America;
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