Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Long Island was once a frontier of coves, farms, and fierce convictions. In Volume I of Benjamin F. Thompson’s landmark history, the island’s past is gathered with the patience of an antiquary and the sweep of a storyteller. Names, places, dates, lives endure.Part regional history chronicle and part antiquarian history classic, this historical reference volume traces long island settlement history from first European contact through the shaping pressures of the colonial era New York world. Thompson moves from town foundations and public affairs to the texture of everyday community, drawing together early american local histories into a single, navigable narrative. For readers of long island new york, it offers context for roads and harbour towns you can still visit; for researchers, it remains a local history reference guide with a strong eye for detail.Equally valuable are its notices of individuals and families: a rich seam of new york family genealogies and antiquarian genealogy collections that continues to serve as a genealogy research resource. Its sustained attention to churches and ministers history records how congregations, denominations, and clergy helped organise civic life and belief on the island. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector’s item and a cultural treasure for casual history readers, students, and classic-literature collectors alike. Keep it on the shelf as a reliable companion when tracing deeds, surnames, or parish records across Suffolk and Kings counties today.
