{"product_id":"at-sea-in-the-city-new-york-from-the-waters-edge-9781565122659","title":"At Sea in the City: New York from the Water's Edge","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York is a city of few boundaries  a city of well-known streets and blocks that ramble on and on  into our literature  dreams  and nightmares. We know the city by the byways that split it  streets like Broadway and Madison and Flatbush and Delancey. From those streets  peering down the blocks and up at the top floors  the city seems immense and endless.  And though the land itself may end at the water  the city does not. Long before Broadway was a muddy cart track  the water was the citys most distinguishing feature  the rivers the only byways of importance. Some people  like William Kornblum  still see the city as an urban archipelago  shaped by the water and the people who have sailed it for goods  money  pirates loot  and freedom. For them  the City will always be an island.  William Kornblum--New York City native  longtime sailor  urban sociologist  and first-time author--has spent decades plying the waterways of the city in his ancient catboat  Tradition. In At Sea in the City  he takes the reader along as he sails through his hometown  lovingly retelling the history of the citys waterfront and maritime culture and the stories of the men and women who made the water their own. In At Sea in the City and in Kornblums own humility  humor  and sense of wonder  one detects echoes of E. B. White  John McPhee  and Joseph Mitchell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45965833011253,"sku":"ByrdShop_1565122658","price":48.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781565122659.jpg?v=1788370005","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/at-sea-in-the-city-new-york-from-the-waters-edge-9781565122659","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}