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While New Jersey is well known for its Shore, it is its other "shore" that is the subject of this book - the lovely New Jersey side of the Delaware River. The Delaware River, at 331 miles, is the longest river in the eastern United States: longer than both the Hudson and the Susquehanna. In The Other Jersey Shore, intrepid New Jersey scholar Michael Aaron Rockland focuses on the civilization lining the banks of the Delaware in New Jersey, from the New York border down to and through the Delaware Bay.

Starting in the extreme northwestern part of the state, Rockland guides the reader downstream to the Delaware Bay, stopping at historic riverside villages like Lambertville, Belvidere, and Frenchtown along the way. The Other Jersey Shore is not a guidebook for tourists with details about canoe rentals, but rather a cultural handbook to this lesser known but beautiful region of the state written by one of the preeminent authorities on New Jersey history and culture. New Jersey, Rockland notes, has not one but two shores, one of which has for too long been largely ignored. There is, Rockland shows, much beauty and adventure to be found there.