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This storybook is both an exciting, newly-discovered sea story, and a detailed reference book that belongs in the book-collection of anyone interested in maritime or immigration history. The author's original research into the maritime history of Long Island and the Port of New York in the 1830s tells of: - Two dramatic shipwrecks and rescue attempts on the South Shore of Long Island. - A mass grave in the village of Lynbrook, containing 139 victims. - Merchants, sailors, passengers, and tall ships in the Age of Sail. - The brave men and women (and the cowards) involved in the wrecks. - The horrors of transatlantic immigration in the 1830s. - Racial and ethnic discrimination on Long Island and in New York City. - Walt Whitman and the profound influence the two wrecks had on his poetry. This beautiful, 81/2 x 11, 280-page history - with full index and bibliography - is the thrilling, true story of two American tall ships, the Bristol and the Mexico, that in the winter of 1836-7 were wrecked off Rockaway Beach and Long Beach, only a few hundred yards offshore. It is an extensively-researched, long-lost story of greed, self-interest, and dereliction of duty on the part of New York City's merchants, ship captains, and harbor pilots in the 1830s.

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