First Resorts Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport and Coney Island |
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Author:
| Sterngass, Jon |
ISBN: | 978-0-8018-6586-2 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $88.99 |
Book Description:
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''At the dawn of the nineteenth century, Saratoga Springs hosted no more than a thousand hardy travelers yearly, Newport floundered in the midst of a fifty-year commercial decline, and Coney Island's beach resembled a wind-swept wilderness. A hundred years later, the number of summer visitors to Saratoga had increased a hundredfold, the antics of ......
''At the dawn of the nineteenth century, Saratoga Springs hosted no more than a thousand hardy travelers yearly, Newport floundered in the midst of a fifty-year commercial decline, and Coney Island's beach resembled a wind-swept wilderness. A hundred years later, the number of summer visitors to Saratoga had increased a hundredfold, the antics of ......