{"product_id":"edgartown-a-bowdoin-van-riper-9781540233424","title":"Edgartown","description":"Founded in 1642 as Great Harbor, Edgartown is the oldest of Martha's Vineyard's six townships. It has been a shire town and a center of learning, a whaling port and a fishing village, a manufacturing center and a mecca for sportsmen. Its gleaming captain's houses and majestic public buildings are a testament to the wealth that whaling brought to the island in the mid-1800s, but the end of New England whaling was far from the end of its story. Faced with the loss of the industry that had sustained it, Edgartown reinvented itself as a summer-centered community of resort hotels, bathing beaches, and genteel vacation homes. It welcomed the world to its shores and became an unlikely cultural icon--a backdrop to a best-selling memoir, a political scandal, and a blockbuster film--famous for being its inimitable self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. Bowdoin Van Riper, The Martha's Vineyard Museum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1540233421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781540233424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcadia Publishing Library Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d","brand":"A. Bowdoin Van Riper","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43938216673535,"sku":"9781540233424","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_658c2ed0-e219-4c18-9219-d8e27ef951f0.jpg?v=1681434426","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/edgartown-a-bowdoin-van-riper-9781540233424","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}