City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan by Beverly Swerling

City of Dreams:  A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan by Beverly Swerling is a 591-page hardcover published in 2001 by Simon & Schuster.  The book are dust jacket are in very good condition. Book Summary Rich with unforgettable characters and history, intricately plotted and utterly absorbing, City of Dreams is a stirring saga of early Manhattan and the beginnings of medical science told by a master storyteller. In 1661, Lucas Turner and his sister Sally staggered off a small wooden ship after 11 weeks at sea to make a fresh start in the rough and rowdy Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam. Lucas, a barber-surgeon, and Sally, an apothecary, are both gifted healers and bound to each other by blood and necessity.  Yet as their new lives unfold, lust, betrayal, and murder will make them deadly enemies. In their struggle to survive in the new world, both made choices that will burden their descendants--dedicated physicians and surgeons, pirates and whoremasters--with a leg