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| #1046484 in eBooks | 2013-02-18 | 2013-02-11 | File type: PDF||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Early Manhattan, Wornderfully Explored|By mahagonythor|From a hilly tree-filled forest to the most amazing city on the globe, this lovingly written book takes us on a very detailed journey through the evolution of Manhattan. The star of the book is the brilliant and eccentric cartographer and surveyor John Randel Jr. who plotted Manhattan's well-known grid. Holloway details Ran|From Booklist|Surveyed two centuries ago, the street grid of then-rural Manhattan was originally created in maps and marked on the ground by John Randel Jr., who emerges here as a remarkable character. Obsessively
“Randel is endlessly fascinating, and Holloway’s biography tells his life with great skill.”—Steve Weinberg, USA Today
John Randel Jr. (1787–1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan’s development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel’s engrossing and dramatic life story for the first time, t...
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