Fire Island: Heroes & Villains on Long Island's Wild Shore (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781540223807)

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.

Author: Jack Whitehouse
ISBN-10: 1540223809
ISBN-13: 9781540223807
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Language: English
Published: 06/03/2011
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d