{"product_id":"the-big-onion-guide-to-new-york-city-ten-historic-tours-paperback-softback-9780814747483","title":"The Big Onion Guide to New York City; Ten Historic Tours (Paperback \/ softback) 9780814747483","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Big Onion Guide to New York City\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTen Historic Tours\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSeth I. Kamil (Author), Eric Wakin (Author), Kenneth Jackson (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814747483\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 April 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e390 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 10.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.467 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"One could scarcely find a more informative and engaging guide than this book, distilled from the award-winning tours developed over the last decade by Big Onion Walking Tours...It is a delight, deeply knowledgeable, presented with wit and style. Would that more historians engage the public so well.\" (New York History,Spring 2002) \"The founders of the acclaimed Big Onion Walking Tours outline 10 historical walks in their home borough, from America's first pencil factory to Bedford-Stuyvesant's beautiful row houses to Coney Island.\" (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA guide to a variety of witty, informative walking tours in New York City\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Whether you're a tourist or a native New Yorker, you will appreciate this witty, informative walking guide to New York City, as authors Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin peel back the layers of New York's most popular neighborhoods. Here in one volume are their award-winning tours. In their \"Immigrant New York\" tour you can take a walk on the Bowery, the most infamous street in the city and learn how the city's finest roadway became America's \"Skid Row.\" In \"Before Stonewall\" you'll discover the many facets of gay and lesbian history and trace the development of Greenwich Village as a cultural mecca. From SoHo to the Upper West Side; from Harlem to Brooklyn there's something in \u003cb\u003eThe Big Onion Guide\u003c\/b\u003e for everyone.\u003cbr\u003e  The authors show how it was nothing new when Mayor Giuliani was unable to ban sales by immigrant mobile food vendors. \u003cb\u003eThe Guide\u003c\/b\u003e takes us to the place where the Dutch tried to ban street side sales by Scottish peddlers 350 years ago, and where the great Fiorello La Guardia banned most of the pushcart salesmen at midcentury.\u003cbr\u003e  But Kamil and Wakin are not nostalgists or preservationists. Instead, their historical tours connect today's city with the snapshots of yesterday, blending social and cultural history with the evolution of different ethnic and cultural communities.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eThe Big Onion Guide\u003c\/b\u003e includes ten walking tours, plus a 5-borough driving tour, peppered with informative sidebars, illustrations, and photos from the collection at the New-York Historical Society.\u003cbr\u003e Visit the Big Onion Guide to New York City site at \u003cb\u003ewww.nyupress.org\/bigonion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563877069080,"sku":"9780814747483","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-big-onion-guide-to-new-york-city-ten-historic-tours-paperback-softback-9780814747483","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}