Central Park Love Song: Wandering Beneath the Heaventrees by Stephen Wolf (Engli

Description: Central Park Love Song by Stephen Wolf Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Through an imaginative blend of personal memoir and meticulous research, Central Park Love Song tells the remarkable story of Americas first great public park and the city that needed and created it. Publisher Description Central Park Love Song is both an intimate portrait and meticulous research of Americas first great public park and the most visited site in New York City. Beginning with the narrator and his dog wandering the battered but still beautiful park in the late 1970s, readers learn why the park is so large on an island so small, why it grows in the center of Manhattan, and what has been lost to the needs of an ever-changing city. These and other stories weave through the narrative as the reader and narrator discover every cave and cranny of the parks 843 acres and later see the park in new ways with his children, much as he did with his dog three decades before. In a creative blend of fact and imagination that includes excerpts from novels, poems, essays and songs about Central Park, we visit the park during its construction, the raucous zoo hoax of 1876, and stroll with "Miss Manhattan" -Audrey Munson, model for three statues in the park and a dozen more throughout the city. Were at Jimmy Walkers glamorous Casino and the bleak Hooverville nearby, slip through a fence on summer nights to swim in the reservoir--Lake Manhattan to those who love it--and experience the wondrous gift given the park and surrounding city by the legendary hawk Pale Male; finally, we watch the Central Park Conservancys miraculous revival of the park over the last twenty years. The book concludes at an imaginary lunch with the narrator, his young daughter, Frederick Law Olmsted and others at work on the map of "The Greensward Plan" that eventually became Central Park.[Stephen Wolfs] Central Park Love Song: Wandering Beneath the Heaventrees is an eloquent, evocative ode that encompasses New York history, past and contemporary protagonists, geography and botany so gracefully that reading his book is like, well, a walk in the park. - SAM ROBERTS, The New York Times Details ISBN 0999315366 ISBN-13 9780999315361 Title Central Park Love Song Author Stephen Wolf Format Paperback Year 2018 Pages 260 Publisher Griffith Moon Publishing GE_Item_ID:128748580; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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