{"product_id":"waterfront-phillip-lopate-9780385497145","title":"Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan","description":"East Side, West Side, from the Little Red Lighthouse to Battery Park City, the wonders of Manhattan's waterfront are both celebrated and secret-hidden in plain sight. In his brilliant exploration of this defining yet neglected shoreline, personal essayist Philip Lopate also recovers a part of the city's soul. \u003cbr\u003eA native New Yorker, Lopate has embraced Manhattan by walking every inch of its perimeter, telling stories on the way of pirates (Captain Kidd) and power brokers (Robert Moses), the lowly shipworm and Typhoid Mary, public housing in Harlem and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. He evokes the magic of the once bustling old port from Melville's and Whitman's day to the era of the longshoremen in \u003cb\u003eOn the Waterfront\u003c\/b\u003e, while appraising today's developers and environmental activists, and probing new plans for parks and pleasure domes with river views. Whether escorting us into unfamiliar, hazardous crannies or along a Beaux Arts esplanade, \u003cb\u003eWaterfront\u003c\/b\u003e is a grand literary ramble and defense of urban life by one of our most perceptive observers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Phillip Lopate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0385497148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385497145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.26w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/31\/2005 pg. 20","brand":"Phillip Lopate","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44212967178495,"sku":"9780385497145","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06989a00-ef08-44fb-b579-5d8e57a7515a.jpg?v=1692111296","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/waterfront-phillip-lopate-9780385497145","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}