Shore Chronicles

Shore ChroniclesThis remarkable collection of fifty travelers' accounts from 1764 to 1955, begins with adventurous Jersey Shore journeys by stagecoach when the coast was still a wild frontier and concludes with the opening of the Garden State Parkway. In the two centuries between, the pleasures and sights of the Shore are described by such well known writers as John J. Audubon, Walt Whitman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen Crane and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But we

not even at latter-day theme parks

hiding from the British the disarray of the American army and the horrific conditions

Roy Pedersen

residents and businesses handled the crisis each in their own way but nearly everyone came together to support each other

More than forty short stories

yet unsung

Through explored diaries and letters

yet holds an appeal as powerful as ever

its familiar rituals

reminiscences

we are charmed by illustrations that take our memories back to when we walked

the text and original illustrations are carefully reproduced here in a lovely reprint of this classic 1906 seashore novel by F