The Brooklyn Nobody Knows
An Urban Walking Guide
(Sprache: Englisch)
Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City - 6,000 miles in all - to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Now he has re-walked Brooklyn - some 816 miles - to write this one-of-a-kind walking guide to the citys hottest borough. Drawing...
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Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City - 6,000 miles in all - to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Now he has re-walked Brooklyn - some 816 miles - to write this one-of-a-kind walking guide to the citys hottest borough. Drawing on hundreds of conversations he had with residents during his block-by-block journeys, The Brooklyn Nobody Knows captures the heart and soul of a diverse, booming, and constantly changing borough that defines cool around the world. The guide covers every one of Brooklyns forty-four neighborhoods, from Greenpoint to Coney Island, providing a colorful portrait of each sections most interesting, unusual, and unknown people, places, and things
Autoren-Porträt von William B. Helmreich
William B. Helmreich is the author many books, including The New York Nobody Knows (Princeton), which won the inaugural 2014-15 Guides Association of New York Award for Outstanding Achievement in Book Writing. He is professor of sociology at the City College of New York's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and at CUNY Graduate Center. The Brooklyn Nobody Knows is the first of five planned walking guides, one for each borough of New York City.
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- Autor: William B. Helmreich
- 2016, 424 Seiten, 44 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 13,9 x 20,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 069116682X
- ISBN-13: 9780691166827
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2016
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Englisch
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