W. W. Norton & Company, November 2016. Hardcover. The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company--led by its founding spirit, the brilliant designer Captain Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (1848-1938)-- constructed the most thrilling, innovative, and graceful boats ever built in the United States, not only lavish yachts and thoroughbred racing classes but also daysailers and.....
Walker & Company, October 2007. Trade Paperback. The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--the longitude problem. Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that the longitude problem was.....
Arcadia Publishing, September 2004. Trade Paperback. Travel back to 20th century New York along the historic tracks of the Long Island Railroad through this stunning image collection. Chartered on April 24, 1834, as a route from Brooklyn to Boston, the Long Island Rail Road commenced in 1836 with service between.....
Dover Publications, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Famed for his enduring fictional masterpieces Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe also possessed considerable expertise in maritime affairs. As a commission merchant, importer, shipowner, and an active journalist who reported ship news and interviewed surviving pirates, Defoe achieved a high degree of.....
Arcadia Publishing, March 2004. Trade Paperback. During the first fifty years of American aviation, Long Island was at the center of aircraft innovation and flight. There were more aircraft manufacturers and airports located on Long Island than in any other part of the United States. Due to the extraordinarily high.....
Arcadia Publishing, August 2010. Trade Paperback. Take a flight with the Long Island aviation companies that helped make the industry the integral part of our world that it is today. Significant aircraft manufacturing began on Long Island in the early 20th century and boomed during the war years. Long Islanders.....
Adlard Coles, August 2020. Hardcover. Now in its fifth edition, Yachtmaster for Sail and Power is an essential companion for anyone enrolling on the RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore course. Yachtmaster for Sail and Power is a major reference book that has proved invaluable for many sailors. This highly respected and.....