Closed Sea: From the Manasquan to the Mullica; a History of Barnegat Bay (signed by the author)
Kent Mountford
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Quantity: 1About this Item
First edtiion. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Fascinating saga of New Jersey's Barnegat Bay region, an area of bays, creeks, barrier island and coastal forest extending roughly from the Manasquan to Mullica Rivers.Herein find tales of the lenni Lenape, pirates, whalers, Revolutionary patriots and loyalists, iron masters and vacationers over a 300+ year history. A fine, fresh example (single name ownership signature top corner of front free endpaper, inequally fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # E13214B
Bibliographic Details
Title: Closed Sea: From the Manasquan to the ...
Publisher: Down The Shore Publishing
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First edition.
About this title
You will learn of the Lenni Lenape, follow the earliest explorers as they first set eyes on the pristine bay, the Dutch and British settlers who came after them and the intrigues and battles of the ³Colonial Rebellion.² You will meet the whalers who migrated from New England to New Jersey¹s coastal waters, and the many others who harvested the sea¹s bounty. You will go with the men of the U.S. Life Saving Service into the icy, treacherous surf of a winter storm. Tales of shipwrecks and of pirate treasure buried on barrier beaches alternate with tales of the Pine Barrens, a place you will visit when it was a thriving center of 18th century industry. And, finally, you will join early summer vacationers for rollicking times in the first guest houses of the Jersey Shore.
With a naturalist¹s eye and a sailor¹s experience, Kent Mountford describes the Shore¹s past, its shifting inlets, disappearing islands, dangerous tides and shoals. Moving inland, he documents the Pinelands environment and the industries it has supported over the centuries. As the coast and the forest have shaped the lives of their inhabitants, so people have influenced the land and the waters.
Closed Sea tells the remarkable history of a fascinating place, a place of great beauty, danger and opportunity, a place that has cast its spell on generations of people ‹ those who came to make a living and those who came to play. Both have brought enormous changes to a sensitive ecosystem ‹ a coastal environment that today is under more pressure than ever.
Begun in 1956, Closed Sea was well ahead of its time. In was environmental history before that discipline had a name or a following. Published now for the first time, the book has tremendous relevance for today¹s residents and visitors to the Jersey Shore.
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