America's Early Whalemen: Indian Shore Whalers on Long Island, 1650-1750, Paperback - John A. Strong

Reducere. The Indians of coastal Long Island were closely attuned to their maritime environment. They hunted sea mammals, fished in coastal waters, and harve...

Reducere. Although the Montaukett were among the first tribes to establish relations with the English in the seventeenth century, very little has been writte...

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Reducere. Few people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians, the region's original inhabitants. One of the oldest reservations in the...

DescriptionDuring the decades following the English civil wars, British poets seeking to make sense of lingering political instabilities turned to ...

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DescriptionFrom the arrival of the Quakers in the seventeenth century to the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, Long Island played an im...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the foreword..Brad Kolodny provides an important history, inventory, and photo archive of the synagogues of Long Island. He has ide...

This introductory textbook is a wide-ranging, accessible survey of the political, social, cultural and economic history of early modern Britain. Th...

Reducere. In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon Sylvester Manor, a stately mansion guarded by...

Reducere. In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive property included a ...

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of au...

Captain Blackpatch has bought a pirate truck to take the pirates on a camping holiday. Once there he becomes convinced that treasure is buried on a...

Contributors: Ann Blair, Simona Boscani Leoni, John Hedley Brooke, Nicolas Brucker, Katherine Calloway, Kathleen Crowther, Brendan Dooley, Peter Ha...

Reducere. The Seminole Struggle: A History of America's Longest Indian War, Hardcover

The Indoor Pirates are fierce, lawless bandits, but they have one fatal weakness: they hate the sea.

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Reducere. The rise and fall of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway from 1887 to its merger with the Soo Line in 1961 is the subject of this thoroughly...

A Logline is the spine, the cornerstone, of a screenplay. In 35 - 45 words a writer must be able to distill down the very essence of a film story, ...

This original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750 highlights the uniq...

The eighteenth century was the Jews' first modern century. The deep changes that took place during its course shaped the following generations, and...

Reducere. Description"In this insightful book the conflicts known as the Seminole Wars are placed in the larger context of American history. Twenty-first-cen...

The epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers

Publisher: Granville Island PublishingAuthor(s): David KirkpatrickIllustration(s): colour & b/w photosNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2009Dim...

Reducere. Now in paperback "From the first page to the last, Klein's prose retains its powers of enchantment and illumination. It is one of the best boxing b...

DescriptionA lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced sur...

Written for boaters with all levels of experience. No glossary of sailing terms needed here. Capt. John's "Island Hopping route" gives you the Cari...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Casey J. (University of California Davis, USA) SullivanIllustration(s): 65 bw illusNumber of page...

Reducere. Long Island's Gold Coast, more than any other section of the country, has captured the imagination of America. This, in part, is attributable to F....

" McKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class t...

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Defines the economic history of early modern Britain. This book describes about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing ...

Reducere. First published in 1977 and unavailable for several years, Indian Fishing is more than a sterile account of the technology of fishing; it considers...

Reducere. Long Island's history is well known, but often overlooked are the island's unique and bizarre stories and treasures--the most interesting locations...