Book description
Ian Frazier’s magnum opus: a love song to New York City’s most heterogeneous and alive borough.
For the past fifteen years, Ian Frazier has been walking the Bronx. Paradise Bronx reveals the amazingly rich and tumultuous history of this amazingly various piece of our greatest city. From Jonas Bronck, who…
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History on foot: a great writer makes 400 years come alive
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