A Guide To Newport's Cliff Walk Review

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(More customer reviews)Anyone walking along this gorgeous path has wondered about the families,this book tells about the people and the history in a most interesting manner. A very well written book.

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It animates the History of the Gilded Age Era along thisthree-and-one-half-mile path, 30 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, bytelling the story, not only of the path and of the development ofBellevue Avenue, but also that of 23 cottages along it: tales of theirextraordinary owners: the Vanderbilts, the Astors, the Belmonts, theirfriends...their fortunes...their frailties and their extraordinaryarchitects.It includes a numbered map to guide the visitor--with marginnumbers in the text to correspond. There are photos of 23 mansions aswell as six 2-page photo spreads, illustrating that Gilded Age SocialLife.More than one third of tourists visiting Newport, R.I., explore atleast a part of Cliff Walk during their stay.The author researched this material to inaugurate the NewportHistorical Society's two-mile, guided tour of this walk--then expandedit into this book. It features humor in addition to historicalfacts. More than 2,000 copies have been sold since publication in May,2000.

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