Mannahatta illustrated by Zoe Barker

Mannahatta illustrated by Zoe BarkerMore than a history, Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is a book of science, natural history, and imagination, a call for us to stretch our thoughts back to 1609 when Henry Hudson first set foot on the island that would become Manhattan and ahead to 2409 to cities and a world where people and wildlife might thrive together. See the salt marsh that is now Delancey Street, the grassy plains of Harlem, the water moving slowly through what is

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Scherer’s interiors feature vintage display cabinets housing discarded collections of whittled songbirds

in all their complexity

produced between the 1890s and 1920s

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