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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 42 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Daniel Henning. |
| Summary |
Enchanted New York chronicles an alternate history of this magical isle. It offers a tour along Broadway, focusing on times and places that illuminate a forgotten and sometimes hidden history of New York through site-specific stories of wizards, illuminati, fortune tellers, magicians, and more. Progressing up New York's central thoroughfare, this guidebook to magical Manhattan offers a history you won't find in your Lonely Planet or Fodor's guide, tracing the arc of American technological alchemies-from Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton to the Manhattan Project-to Mesmeric physicians, to wonder-working Madame Blavatsky, and seers Helena Roerich and Alice Bailey. Harry Houdini appears and disappears, as the world's premier stage magician's feats of prestidigitation fade away to reveal a much more mysterious-and meaningful-marquee of magic. Unlike old-world cities, New York has no ancient monuments to mark its magical adolescence. There is no local memory embedded in the landscape of celebrated witches, warlocks, gods, or goddesses-no myths of magical metamorphoses. As we follow Kevin Dann in geographical and chronological progression up Broadway from Battery Park to Inwood, each chapter provides a surprising picture of a city whose ever-changing fortunes have always been founded on magical activity. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Broadway (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Anecdotes.
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Magic -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Anecdotes.
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Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Anecdotes.
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New York (N.Y.) -- History.
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| Added Author |
Henning, Daniel.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Journey along Broadway through Manhattan's magical past |
| ISBN |
9781705275498 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1705275494 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13625551 |
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