Limit this search to....

Long Island and the Sea: A Maritime History
Contributor(s): Bleyer, Bill (Author), Joel, Billy (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1467138622     ISBN-13: 9781467138628
Publisher: History Press
OUR PRICE:   $22.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2019
Qty:
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa)
- Transportation | Ships & Shipbuilding - History
- Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

For more than five centuries, the waterways surrounding Long Island have profoundly shaped its history.


Familiar subjects of lighthouses, shipwrecks and whaling are found alongside oft-forgotten oddities such as Pan-American flying boa

Contributor Bio(s): Bleyer, Bill: - Bill Bleyer was a prize-winning staff writer for Newsday, the Long Island daily newspaper, for thirty-three years before retiring in 2014 to write books and freelance for the newspaper and magazines. He is coauthor, with Harrison Hunt, of Long Island and the Civil War (The History Press, 2015). He is the author of Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House (The History Press, 2015) and The Fire Island Lighthouse: Long Island's Welcoming Beacon (The History Press, 2017). The Long Island native has written extensively about history for newspapers and magazines. In 1997-98, he was one of four Newsday staff writers assigned full time to "Long Island: Our Story," a year-long daily history of Long Island that resulted in three books and filled hundreds of pages in the newspaper. His work has been published in Civil War News, Naval History, Sea History, Lighthouse Digest and numerous other magazines, as well as in the New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Toronto Star and other newspapers. Bleyer graduated Phi Beta Kappa with highest honors in economics from Hofstra University, where he has been an adjunct professor teaching journalism and economics. He earned a master's degree in urban studies at Queens College of the City University of New York. An avid sailor, diver and kayaker, he lives in Bayville, Long Island.