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The Island at the Centre of the World: The Untold Story of Dutch Manhattan And the Founding of New York
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Transworld Pub
Publication date March 1, 2005
Pages 329
Binding Paperback
Edition New
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780552999823
ISBN-10 0552999822
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $16.05
§As reported by publisher
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Through the story of the bitter struggle between two men, Peter Stuyvesant and Adriaen Van den Donck, is told the vivid history of the wilderness island that became the most powerful city in the most powerful country in the world: Manhattan.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: It was situated on a perfect natural harbour at the mouth of a great river leading into a huge new land. Manhattan Island was to grow into the most powerful city in the most powerful country in the world. THE ISLAND AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD returns to the origins of New York's extraordinary history. It tells how a wilderness populated only by wolves and native tribes became the melting pot from which developed the free-trade, multi-cultural and upwardly-mobile spirit of New York that in turn would shape the whole American nation.

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9780552999823 | details & prices | 329 pages | List price $16.05
About: Through the story of the bitter struggle between two men, Peter Stuyvesant and Adriaen Van den Donck, is told the vivid history of the wilderness island that became the most powerful city in the most powerful country in the world: Manhattan.

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