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These are pretty cool. Thanks.
This is a really visual book, but as someone unfamiliar with New York I'm finding that I'm having to research the modern locations so that I can understand the historical descriptions. One example is that the city hall is cleaner - but it is assumed that I know what the modern building looks like. Perhaps it's famous across the USA, but I'm reaching out to Google for help :-)I'm actually enjoying the book and the experience immensely. Up until now my mental image of modern New York drew largely on "Friends".
William wrote: "This is a really visual book, but as someone unfamiliar with New York I'm finding that I'm having to research the modern locations so that I can understand the historical descriptions."I was thinking that this book could have benefited from having a map of New York in 1882.
The World building history is fascinating. As terrible as that part was, I really enjoyed reading it.
A bit of a tangent but Time and Again mentions the popularity of Lew Wallace's book, Ben Hur. I was a bit skeptical so poked around and found two tidibts in wikipedia."Ben-Hur remained at the top of the bestseller lists until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936)."
"Wallace was deluged with requests to dramatize it as a stage play, but he resisted, arguing no one could accurately portray Christ on stage or recreate a realistic chariot race."
The interesting thing was how both of these concerns were addressed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur...
Kristina wrote: "I think this book falls more into Historical Fiction than Sci-Fi.. But regardless of genre I'm am really enjoying it. I love looking up places and people from stories like this. Here are some cool ..."I agree, this is more Historical Fiction. Thank-you for those links!
My ebook came with the pictures in it. I really think the pictures added something.
A little later than 1882, but here's a video of Boston in 1906. It reminded me of Time and Again.
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