The Big Oyster

Autori

• Mark Kurlansky

Parametri

• Natura
• Natura, animali
• Saggistica
• Scienza
• Storia

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When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. In 1842, when the novelist Charles Dickens arrived in New York, he could not conceal his eagerness to find and experience the fabled oyster cellars of New York City's slums.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2007

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