Fire Island
Heroes & Villains on Long Island's Wild Shore
Nonfiction, Travel, Pictorials, Art & Architecture, Photography, History
| Author: | Jack Whitehouse | ISBN: | 9781614233848 |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing Inc. | Publication: | June 3, 2011 |
| Imprint: | The History Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jack Whitehouse |
| ISBN: | 9781614233848 |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing Inc. |
| Publication: | June 3, 2011 |
| Imprint: | The History Press |
| Language: | English |
Fire Island, or Great South Beach as it is also known, is a 32-mile long sliver of a barrier beach located just off the South Shore of Long Island. Always a wild, lonely and untamed wilderness, its shores, waterways and the lands surrounding it have given us innumerable stories -- some inspirational, some frightening, but all of them intriguing. The stories in this book portray people and events from the island's earliest days, when it served Native Americans as a rich hunting, fishing and whaling site until the present day and its use as a U.S. National Seashore and National Wilderness Area.
Fire Island, or Great South Beach as it is also known, is a 32-mile long sliver of a barrier beach located just off the South Shore of Long Island. Always a wild, lonely and untamed wilderness, its shores, waterways and the lands surrounding it have given us innumerable stories -- some inspirational, some frightening, but all of them intriguing. The stories in this book portray people and events from the island's earliest days, when it served Native Americans as a rich hunting, fishing and whaling site until the present day and its use as a U.S. National Seashore and National Wilderness Area.
