Six Miles at Sea: A Pictorial History of Long Beach Island, New Jersey

Expanded, with an artistic color cover, improved reproductions and newly discovered historic photos, this 30th Anniversary Edition is a fitting tribute to the legacy of John Bailey Lloyd.

In its pages you will travel back to Edwardian Beach Haven, discover the origins of Barnegat Lighthouse, and know the fortitude of the men of the U.S. Lifesaving Service. You'll experience nature's fury -- the hurricane of '44 and the March northeaster of '62 -- and learn how the Island's shifting southern end has changed -- with a ''new inlet,'' ''old inlet,'' and a disappeared Tucker's Island.

You'll know how and where bootleggers smuggled alcohol ashore during Prohibition, and delight in the Island's favorite watering holes ''When Beer Was Ten Cents A Glass.'' You'll learn about an eccentric Barnegat Light resident and the U.S. Supreme Court.

''In the Days of the Dune Hoppers,'' during World War II, a largely forgotten period on the Island, hotels boarded soldiers, the military patrolled beaches on horseback, and oceanside blackouts were mandatory. ''Ducks, Guns, and Money on Old Barnegat Bay'' explores the era of adventurous aristocratic men drawn to this shore.

You'll learn about town names (Beach Arlington, Long Beach City, Peahala, ''Harvey Cedars or Harvest Cedars?''), summers of baseball and the famous Roger ''Doc'' Cramer. The Lucy Evelyn, a schooner that was as much an attraction as Barnegat Lighthouse, is fondly remembered.

In this loving history: Travel the first automobile highways to the Shore or take the train to one of the grand old hotels. You'll even learn the origin of that enduring phrase, ''Six Miles At Sea.''

The late John Bailey Lloyd's lyrical and pioneering writing about Long Beach Island has been the inspiration for many books about Jersey Shore history. Here is the source -- providing a true sense of place. His three elegant companion books explore much of the history of the Shore with a focus on LBI. The Island of today is strikingly different from that of a century ago but here are images of an innocent and wilder past that cement our present-day bond with this place.

Modern-day Shore lovers will find their long-ago counterparts here. These books give us an opportunity to rediscover a unique place at the sea's edge -- a beautiful, sometimes dangerous, more personal LBI and the people who came to know and love it.