Island At The Center Of The World The Epic Story Of Dutch Manhattan And The Forgotten Colony That Shaped America

Russell Shorto is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of two previous books: Gospel Truth, about the search for the historical Jesus, and Saints and Madmen, about psychiatry and religion. The hub of his research for The Island at the Center of the World was the New Netherland Project at the New York State Library, where the archives of the Dutch colony centered on Manhattan are being translated. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley with his wife and their two daughters.Shorto, Russell is the author of 'Island At The Center Of The World The Epic Story Of Dutch Manhattan And The Forgotten Colony That Shaped America', published 2005 under ISBN 9781400078677 and ISBN 1400078679.