Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780922233298)

Millions of people in New York and New Jersey consider the Hudson River as familiar as their own backyard yet only have a superficial knowledge of the landscape and land use of this river's waterfront. This beautiful book deepens readers' understanding with an aerial portrait of the river's shores from the Battery, at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, to the river's origin near Albany. Focusing on man-made sites rarely seen by those who travel along the river's banks -- some of which can only be seen aerially -- the book showcases the shore area's vanishing (or vanished) avenues, prisons, power plants, quarries, parks, condos, and redevelopments. Up River's photos and accompanying succinct text tell the story of how this river was used in developing industry and modern America from Revolutionary times through 19th-century exploitation of the waterfront to the beginnings of environmental activism that protects famous vistas from the quarriers of the Palisades.

Author: Center for Land Use Interpretation
ISBN-10: 0922233292
ISBN-13: 9780922233298
Publisher: Blast Books
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2008
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 6.35h x 9.25w x 0.92d