Uptown Local, Downtown Express [Hardcover]

James Stevenson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Viking Adult; First Edition edition (May 24, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670192643
• ISBN-13: 978-0670192649
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #961,930 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Uptown Local, Downtown Express, March 12, 2006

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This review is from: Uptown Local, Downtown Express (Hardcover)

In the great tradition of travel-writers from Xenophon to Lewis Carrol, James Stevenson, a traveller in urban spaces, opens the door to a host of facts, mysteries, and perceptions ranging from the unexpected and the fantastic to the sublime. In Uptown Local, Downtown Express he takes us with him to hitherto uncharted areas of New York City: we experience the wrath of attacking bees on the jogging paths of Central Park; we discover the city planners' enviromentally inoffensive proposal for Airway - a highway supported entirely by festive helium balloons imprinted with I LOVE NEW YORK; we visit dumps nd landfills and the Fulton Fish Market at dawn, when it is as cold as a tuna on ice; we learn the existence of the Bruckner Octagon, a kind of Bermuda Triangle where tourists, an entire apartment complex, and assorted cars and roadside arteries have mysteriously vanished into thin air.

In words and in the marvellous pen-and-ink drawings for which he is famous, Stevenson introduces us to some unforgetable characters - shoe repairmen, candy manufacturers, actors, dog-walkers, small childresn - and to a wealth of undiscovered facts.

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