Invisible Frontier: The Jinx Book of Urban Exploration

Lb Deyo

ISBN 10: 0609809318 / ISBN 13: 9780609809310

Published by Random House USA Inc, 2003

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From the leaders in the burgeoning urban adventure scene, Jinx magazine, comes this extreme tour of New York City's unseen places - from its sewers and subway tunnels to the pinnacles of its bridges. From abandoned hospitals to epic graffiti murals to the roof of Grand Central Station and the enormous towers of the George Washington Bridge, Invisible Frontier offers a series of gripping true adventure stories and a fascinating trip through the seldom-chronicled aspects of a great city's history, technology and culture.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Invisible Frontier: The Jinx Book of Urban Exploration
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0609809318
• ISBN 13: 9780609809310
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

In the shadows of the city waits an invisible frontier—a wilderness thriving in the deep places, woven through dead storm drains and live subway tunnels, coursing over third rails. This frontier waits in the walls of abandoned tenements, hides on the rooftops, infiltrates the bridges’ steel. It’s a no-man’s-land, fenced off with razor wire, marked by warning signs, persisting in shadow, hidden everywhere as a parallel dimension. Crowds hurry through the bright streets, insulated by pavement, never reflecting that beneath their feet or above their heads lurks a universe.

Led by its two founding agents, L. B. Deyo and David “Lefty” Leibowitz, Jinx is a stylish urban adventure out?t known for its daring—if sometimes ridiculous—forays into the hidden wonders that lurk above and beneath America’s greatest city, New York. In Invisible Frontier L. B. and Lefty chronicle Jinx’s dramatic—if sometimes absurd—exploration of a Dante-esque New York, from the depths of the city’s underground Hell (abandoned aqueducts and subway tunnels) to the pinnacles of its Paradise (rooftops and bridges) and everything in between, capturing the genius of the city’s engineering, the vibrancy of its found art, and the elegiac beauty of its ruins. Here is a true series of wittily narrated adventures into the hidden world beneath a great civilization.

About the Author

L. B. Deyo and David “Lefty” Leibowitz are the founders of Jinx: The Magazine of Global Urban Adventure (www.jinxmagazine.com). They live in New York City.