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Mannahatta : a natural history of New York City / Eric W. Sanderson ; illustrations by Markley Boyer.

Title
Mannahatta : a natural history of New York City / Eric W. Sanderson ; illustrations by Markley Boyer.
Author
Sanderson, Eric W.
Publication
New York : Abrams, 2009.
Supplementary Content
  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description

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Description
352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color); 27 cm
Summary
Reconstructs the ecological history of Manhattan through period maps, archeological discoveries, and computational geography to create pictures and descriptions of Manhattan from 1609 to the present day.
Subject
  • HISTORY > United States > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
  • Historische Geografie
  • NATURE > General
  • Nachhaltigkeit
  • Natural History > New York
  • Natural History
  • Natural history > New York
  • Natural history
  • Naturlandschaft
  • New York (États-Unis ; État)
  • New York (State) > New York
  • New York- Manhattan
  • New York
  • Ökosystem
  • Sciences naturelles > New York (États-Unis ; État)
  • Stadtökologie
  • Umwelt
Genre/Form
Nonfiction.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-328) and index.
Contents
The Mannahatta project -- A map found -- The fundamentals of Mannahatta -- The Lenape -- Ecological neighborhoods --Muir webs : connecting the parts -- Manhattan 2409.
ISBN
  • 9780810996335
  • 0810996332
  • 9781419707483
  • 1419707485
LCCN
2008042042
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries