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Mannahatta By Eric W. Sanderson

Mannahatta

A Natural History of New York City

by Eric W. Sanderson

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Mannahatta

On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set eyes on the land that would become Manhattan—a quiet, wooded island remarkable for its ecological diversity. It’s difficult for us to imagine what he saw, but for more than a decade, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson has been working to do just that with the Mannahatta Project (“Mannahatta” means “island of many hills” in the Lenape language). Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is the astounding result of those efforts, reconstructing, in words and striking images, the wild island that millions of New Yorkers now call home.

By geographically matching an 18th-century map of Manhattan’s landscape to the modern cityscape, combing through historical and archaeological records, and applying modern principles of ecology and the latest techniques in computer modeling, Sanderson is able to re-create the forests of Times Square, the meadows of Harlem and the wetlands of downtown. Filled with breathtaking illustrations that show what the concrete canyons of Manhattan looked like 400 years ago, Mannahatta is a groundbreaking work that gives us not only a window into the past, but inspiration for green cities and wild places of the future.

Hardcover: 312 pages

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams ( May 01, 2009 )

Item #: 66-1789

ISBN: 9780810996335

Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 10.0 x 0.0 inches

Product Weight: 61.0 ounces

Big Book lacking something....
July 09, 2009

I was excited to get this book because I love manhattan but this really disapointed me. It gave interesting computer renderings of the the island before people (or minimal indian settlement), current photos, and renderings of the 'future'. It would have been so much better had it diagramed the settlement and growth of the city including where people settled, why, expansion rate, etc. I also dont buy into the future renderings. I dont see manhattan and surrounding counties going back to farmland. I agree that there wil be changes to make the city more green with green roofs, wind/solar generated power plants, but the rate will be much slower than what the book predicts. Just my 2 cents

Reviewer: Nicole

Needs to be an "Illustrated" version
July 06, 2009

I felt like this book would have done better as an "illustrated" version with more pictures and less dialogue-which focuses on Environmental Biology. The fact that they market the pictures in the book says alot...

Reviewer: T. L

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