Through half-shut eyes, it was possible to imagine the matchlessly fertile land the first explorers glimpsed, and to ponder what they might have made of the developments of the subsequent half-millennium. The view from the top of the World Trade Center was heart-stopping not so much because it afforded a view of the teeming hub of capitalism the building existed to celebrate, but because from that great altitude the contours of the island of Manhattan were so clearly visible. The Island at the Centre of the World: The Untold Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Founding of New York
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