Imagining Philadelphia: Travelers' Views of the City from 1800 to the Present

by Philip Stevick

In travel narratives, in correspondence, in diaries, and even in fiction, travelers to Philadelphia have bequeathed to us a bounty of "as many Philadelphias as there are observers." Philip Stevick's collection of outsiders' observations captures what the visitors thought they saw and how it felt to have engaged the life of the city. Some travelers visited the classic destinations of earlier times, such as the great waterworks complex; others reacted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812233778
• ISBN13: 9780812233773
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"