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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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Book cover for 9780552999823
 
New edition from Transworld Pub (March 1, 2005)
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.