Imperial City: New York

This book is a mixture of history and the author's own personal experience. He sees New York as a city of contradictions. The rich get richer and the poor poorer today, as it has been throughout its history. He describes the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. The author has also written "Calcutta" and "To the Frontier", which won the Thomas Cook Award for the best travel book of 1984.