City of Dreams : A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan

by Beverly Swerling

• ISBN13: 9780684871721
• ISBN10: 0684871726
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-18
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

In 1661, a brother and sister staggered off a small wooden ship after eleven perilous weeks at sea to seek a new life in the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam. Bound to each other by blood and necessity, gifted healers both, as their new lives unfold, betrayal and murder will make them deadly enemies. Their descendents -- dedicated physicians and surgeons, pirates and whoremasters -- will shape the future of medicine and the growing city. City of Dreams follows the stories of the Turners and the DeVreys in a city where slaves were burned alive on Wall Street, where James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams walked the Broad Way arguing America's destiny, and where one of the greatest hospitals in the world would be born in a former shipwright's workshops by the East River. Set against the panorama of a young country's struggle for freedom, rich in history and medical detail, it is an enthralling tale told by a master storyteller.

Author Biography

Beverly Swerling is a writer, a consultant, and an avid amateur historian. She lives in New York City with her husband.

Table of Contents

Contents

BOOK I: THE LITTLE MUSQUASH PATH
June 1661-October 1664

BOOK II: THE SEEING FAR PATH
December 1711-June 1714

BOOK III: THE HIGH HILLS PATH
August 1731-February 1737

BOOK IV: THE SHIVERING CLIFFS PATH
August 1737-November 1737

BOOK V: THE CLAWS TEAR OUT EYES PATH
September 1759-July 1760

BOOK VI: THE PATH OF FLAMES
July 1765-December 1765

BOOK VII: WAR PATH
August 1776-March 1784

EPILOGUE: THE PATH OF DREAMS
June 1798