Saving Central Park: A History And A Memoir Pdf Epub ISBN-10 1524733555, ISBN-13 978-1524733

Saving Central Park: A History And A Memoir

By autor: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
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The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today.Elizabeth Barlow Rogers opens with a quick survey of her early life--a middle-class upbringing in Texas; college at Wellesley, marriage, a master's degree ...

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf; First Edition edition (May 15, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1524733555
ISBN-13: 978-1524733551
Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 189188
Format: PDF ePub Text djvu ebook

The Epilogue is very scary, but don't read it first cause the rest of the book is what makes it scary. Photographs for this volume were provided from private collections and a detailed inventory from the National Park Service. The book comes packaged with a cute "let's draw" sketchbook. Excerpt from Thirty-Six Voyages: To Various Parts of the World, Made Between the Years 1799 and 1841IT may disarm criticism of some of its asperity, when the author states that, in publishing for the entertainment of his friends the following extracts from his journal, he makes no pretensions to literary skill or merit. book Saving Central Park: A History And A Memoir Pdf Epub. But one day she finds her secret kitty with someone elsethe girl in Gena's mirror. As a noted Jewish thinker once said " The question is not were was G-d, but where was man". Changes in earth's albedo due to desertification, vegetation growth, and the exposure of more or less beach as sea levels advance and retreat. I graduated from college in four years despite changing my major five times because I attended summer school and winter session.

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Central Park is not only a beloved ornament of New York City, but of the nation. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers weaves her own life story with that of Manhattan's great public park, and adds side stories on other important urban parks and on home gardening....

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nning at Yale. And then her move to New York, where she starts a family and, when she finds being a mother and a housewife is not enough, pours herself into the protection and enhancement of the city's green spaces. Interwoven into her own story is a comprehensive history of Central Park: its design and construction as a scenic masterpiece; the alterations of each succeeding era; the addition of numerous facilities for sports and play; and finally, the "anything goes" phase of the 1960s and 70s, which was often fun but nearly destroyed the park. The two narratives continue to entwine as she finds a job in the administration of Central Park, founds the Central Park Conservancy, and transforms both the park and herself--a transformation that has led to the writing of her many books, to travels that have taken her to parks and gardens around the world, and to solidifying the prestige of one of New York's most conspicuous landmarks.