Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City

What did New York look like four centuries ago? An extraordinary reconstruction of a wild island from the forests of Times Square to the wetlands downtown.

Named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal, New York Magazine, and San Francisco Chronicle

On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set foot on the land that would become Manhattan. Today, it's difficult to imagine what he saw, but for more than a decade, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson has been working to do just that.

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