Contact the Author | sample_mail@mail.com

From Beaton’s to Beach Haven

 

This book focuses on the construction of a twenty-eight foot wooden Cat Boat called Ghost, her success on the race course, and her retirement to the NJ Maritime Museum. Each step in the building process is documented with color photos that are explained in everyday language

 


WILLIAM FORTENBAUGH

Publications

 

1. Sailing

Monograph:

From Beaton’s to Beach Haven: A Cat Ghost, BH G, Bloomington Ind. 2017.

Awarded the purple star for excellence by the Pacific Book Review: “A well-researched, well written, and fairly quick read that (does) an excellent job of showcasing the passion and effort that went into

(an) A Cat dubbed Ghost’…This book is perfect for anyone who enjoys boats and boating, or the history of the boating world…packed with details and specific building specs that fans and enthusiasts will thoroughly devour.”

For a visual/audible introduction to the book—color photos with voice over—click Here

 

2. Greek Philosophy: Aristotle, Theophrastus et al.

Monograph:

Aristotle on Emotion, London: Duckworth and New York: Barnes and Noble (hard and soft cover) 1975, reprinted with epilogue 2002

 

Text and Commentary:

Quellen zur Ethik Theophrasts, Amsterdam: B. R. Grüner Verlag 1984

 

Text and Translation:

Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought & Influence, 2 vols. pp. 1170, ed. and transl. with P. Huby, R. Sharples & D. Gutas, Leiden: E.J. Brill 1992; reprinted with corrections 1993

 

Commentary:

Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought & Influence, Commentary Volume 8: Sources on Rhetoric and Poetics, Leiden Brill 2005

Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought & Influence, Commentary Volume 6a: Sources on Ethics, Leiden Brill, 2010

Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought & Influence, Commentary Volume 9b: Sources on Beginnings and Proverbs et al., Leiden Brill, 2014

 

Text, Translation and Commentary:

“Theophrastus, On Sweat,” in Theophrastus, On Sweat, On Dizziness and On Fatigue, ed. with R. Sharples and M. Sollenberger (Leiden 2003) 1-167

 

Collected Essays

Theophrastean Studies, Stuttgart: Franz Schneider 2003

Aristotle’s Practical Side: On his Psychology, Ethics, Politics and Rhetoric, Leiden: Brill 2006

 

A complete list of articles published individually in scholarly journals, anthologies and the like can be obtained by writing the author at fortenb@scarletmail.rutgers.edu.

 


Watch the Book Video