Westchester
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Local history. Brown cloth covers nice, corners and spine ends bumped. Dust jacket rubbed and sunned, moderate edge wear with small chips, one larger tear on the front flap fold. Interior clean and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0679733272
ISBN13:9780679733270
Release Date:January 1991
Publisher:Vintage Books USA
Length:219 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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History, cultural geography, and much more
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This wonderful book is a combination of great things. Shoumatoff is a sympathetic listener and a careful reporter. Westchester County, N.Y. contains densely developed towns and commercial nodes, run-of-the-mill suburbs, gorgeous wooded areas, and lots of history. It's a detailed account, part trenchant anecdote, part careful research. For example, Westchester has more trees now than it did two hundred years ago. (Grazing animals, mainly horses, kept the woods back, then.) Shoumatoff has talked to folks, read histories, and lived there. Unlike other geographies of comparatively small places, this one is never precious or merely detail-obsessed. Rather, it's really, really good, a terrific and humane example of the genre.
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