Governors Island Explorer's Guide
Governors Island Explorer's Guide

Author: Kevin C. Fitzpatrick

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-02-16

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1493019678

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Governors Island is a 172-acre park just 800 yards from Manhattan. It was a military base for 200 years and only opened to the public in 2004. Today it draws 500,000 visitors a season. This insightful guidebook is for any visitor to the island: a bicyclist who just wants to enjoy five miles of car-free biking, the Civil War enthusiast that wants to visit Castle Williams and see where 1,000 Confederate soldiers were imprisoned, or families on a picnic. The author explores the history of the island, its place in New York and American government, and its long and distinguished military past. More than 80 locations are featured that visitors can explore—from forts to officers housing and much more.

Passport to Your National Parks
Passport to Your National Parks

Author: Eastern National

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781590911761

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It's here! Now you can stamp your way through the entire National Park System with the newest addition to the Passport To Your National Parks line of products: the Collector's Edition Passport. Beauty and practicality meet artfully in this deluxe version of the popular Passport, taking you above and beyond the original by providing space for Passport stickers and cancellation stamps for every single park, as well as space for extra cancellations. The park sites are color-coded by region, each area featuring a color map that pinpoints park locations. With a spiral binding that makes it easy to lie open flat, a hard cover that ensures durability and longer life, and pages graced with beautiful color photographs, it's the ultimate stamping ground.

July Crisis
July Crisis

Author: T. G. Otte

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 1107064902

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A definitive new account of the catalytic events of July 1914 that led to the outbreak of the First World War.

50 Great American Places
50 Great American Places

Author: Brent D. Glass

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1451682034

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Profiles fifty sites across the United States that trace the cultural history of the country, discussing the people and events that led to each site's importance, from the National Mall in D.C. to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.