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