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Weird & Wonderful New York State. Weird and Wonderful America, #4
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- ISBN8235739727
- EAN9798235739727
- Date de parution07/05/2026
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- ÉditeurIoakim Ioakim
Résumé
WEIRD & WONDERFUL NEW YORK STATE is a fast, funny, fact-based ride through the Empire State - from New Amsterdam to New York City, from Niagara Falls to Sleepy Hollow, from Buffalo wings to Broadway, from Wall Street to lake monsters that still refuse to file paperwork. New York is not just one skyline. It is Indigenous homeland, Dutch colony, Revolutionary battlefield, canal corridor, immigrant doorway, financial powerhouse, comedy engine, pizza argument, snowstorm survivor, sports obsession, literary mood, and one very loud cultural machine.
Inside, you'll find short, readable chapters packed with strange history, surprising facts, local legends, famous people, food stories, roadside attractions, natural wonders, disasters, comebacks, official symbols, and myths clearly labeled as myths. You'll meet:The real history behind New Netherland, New Amsterdam, and the British takeoverSleepy Hollow, Champ the lake monster, Whitehall Bigfoot, and other local legendsNew York pizza, bagels, Buffalo wings, cheesecake, deli culture, and Rochester's Garbage PlateTheodore Roosevelt, FDR, Susan B.
Anthony, Walt Whitman, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Lucille Ball, and moreThe Yankees, Mets, Bills, Knicks, Rangers, Islanders, Madison Square Garden, and the Miracle on IceNiagara Falls, Cooperstown, the Adirondacks, the Finger Lakes, Long Island beaches, and roadside odditiesBroadway, hip-hop, Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, Friends, Ghostbusters, King Kong, and New York's endless screen lifeThis is not a textbook.
It is not a travel manual. It will not help you afford rent in Manhattan, survive a Buffalo blizzard, or settle the pizza debate without consequences. It is a smart, entertaining bathroom-reader-style book for curious adults who like history with personality, trivia with sources, and legends that know when to admit they are legends. The Empire State is loud, layered, brilliant, difficult, hungry, haunted, ambitious, resilient, and never quite as simple as it looks.
Which is exactly why it belongs in this series.
Inside, you'll find short, readable chapters packed with strange history, surprising facts, local legends, famous people, food stories, roadside attractions, natural wonders, disasters, comebacks, official symbols, and myths clearly labeled as myths. You'll meet:The real history behind New Netherland, New Amsterdam, and the British takeoverSleepy Hollow, Champ the lake monster, Whitehall Bigfoot, and other local legendsNew York pizza, bagels, Buffalo wings, cheesecake, deli culture, and Rochester's Garbage PlateTheodore Roosevelt, FDR, Susan B.
Anthony, Walt Whitman, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Lucille Ball, and moreThe Yankees, Mets, Bills, Knicks, Rangers, Islanders, Madison Square Garden, and the Miracle on IceNiagara Falls, Cooperstown, the Adirondacks, the Finger Lakes, Long Island beaches, and roadside odditiesBroadway, hip-hop, Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, Friends, Ghostbusters, King Kong, and New York's endless screen lifeThis is not a textbook.
It is not a travel manual. It will not help you afford rent in Manhattan, survive a Buffalo blizzard, or settle the pizza debate without consequences. It is a smart, entertaining bathroom-reader-style book for curious adults who like history with personality, trivia with sources, and legends that know when to admit they are legends. The Empire State is loud, layered, brilliant, difficult, hungry, haunted, ambitious, resilient, and never quite as simple as it looks.
Which is exactly why it belongs in this series.
