Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> United States - Northeast - Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA)

"One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye... thoroughly terrific."
--Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

Nonstop Metropolis, the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts--from linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and...

The Mountain is R. M. S. Jackson's intriguing work on the benefits of a life attuned to nature. In the second half of the nineteenth century, Jackson, a doctor and health enthusiast from Cambria County, Pennsylvania, established a sanitarium called the Allegheny Mountain Health Institute. In this book, he urges his readers to abandon the mobs of the cities and frivolities of leisure for the health and happiness that he attributes to the powers of the Allegheny Mountains. The Mountain is an exemplary study of the Alleghenies, combining an examination of the natural...

When Antoine Dutot opened the Kittatinny Hotel--the first tourist hotel in the Poconos--in 1829, little did he know that he was a pioneer in what would become one of the largest and most diverse tourist and recreation areas on the East Coast. Although his initial venture failed, the tourist industry of the Poconos has been a long-term success, evolving and adapting to change. Better in the Poconos tells the story of Pennsylvania's premier vacationland from its earliest days to the present.

The flourishing tourist and resort industry in the Poconos can be attributed, in...

First published by the author in 1895, The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania narrates the history of the early Germans of various sects and congregations who settled in Pennsylvania starting at the end of the seventeenth century, with a particular focus on a group of German Pietist mystics who emigrated to America in 1694 to pursue the freedom to practice their religion. The book details Pietism's origins in Europe, Pietists' beliefs and practices, and the Pietists' relationships with other religious groups, like the Quakers, Lutherans, and Jansenites. The book is a...

This is the first of two volumes detailing Pennsylvania's battalions and line during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783.

Volume 1 contains brief regimental histories, supplemented by letters and diary entries from the leadership, rosters of field and staff officers, and rolls of enlisted men in each company and their ranks.

This volume includes the following chapters:

Col. Wm. Thompson's Battalion of Riflemen

First Pennsylvania Battalion, Col. DeHaas

Second Pennsylvania Battalion, Col. St. Clair

Third Pennsylvania Battalion, Col....