Reviews for Genesis 1-3 in the History of Exegesis Intrigue in the Garden

The average rating for Genesis 1-3 in the History of Exegesis Intrigue in the Garden based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-12-25 00:00:00 Christina Wright A wonderful ecological portrait of New York Harbor. While the harbor's maritime trade is decline, it's natural life is resurgent! It is a great corrective to the common laments about the state of maritime industry. Waldman is not a great prose stylist but he has an enthusiasm for the Harbor that is infectious and delightful.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-11-19 00:00:00 Mildred Thomason New York Harbor Survives There hasn't been such an intimate look at New York Harbor since Joseph Mitchell's classic "The Bottom of the Harbor". John Waldman captures the mystique and dark romance known only to a few New York bayman. Readers will become familiar with New York events like "Floaters week", underruns, blow out tides; fishing holes with unlikely names such as Aquatic Appalachia, Tin Can Grounds, Acid Grounds, and Cholera Banks; flotsam that will never be found in any dictionary like "Coney Island Whitefish" and "blop-blops"; nautical entrepreneurs like the "Belford Pirates", illegal pinhookers, Kenney's Killer Killifish, headboats and even an urban sports fishing guide. John Watchman takes you to backwaters and commercial dead ends where the "Fiftteenth Ward Smelling Committee" once searched for the source of health-giving vapors, sludge bubbles, perfume wagon stenches; and a criminal defense lawyer even tried to use the black, bubbly water of the bay as a possible neurological "The river made me do it" defense. I spent many of my early years wandering New York Harbor and it's many tributaries in search of stripped bass, jacking for blue claw crabs, ice boating, racing sailboats or simply drifting down the Harlem River on a warm summer night listening to the urban mixture of steel bands, fire engine horns, police sirens and elevated trains. It was a treat to hear that you can still do many of these things and the hostilities to this great body of water are being addressed by special people like John Watchman. We owe him a lot. Richard Quis now lives in Southern California where the colorful flotsam is oranges, lemons and tennis balls.