The Edge Of Maine

Author : Geoffrey Wolff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 142620907X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Maine written by Geoffrey Wolff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist and biographer Geoffrey Wolff has spent many summers in Maine - sailing its coastal waters, climbing its rocky peaks, and communing with its natives. Now, with the voice of a passionate insider, he brings readers into the heart of this striking region and explains what makes it unique. Starting with a gripping tale about being lost offshore in the fog with inadequate navigational aids, Wolff goes on to describe the coast’s geological history and discovery by Europeans. He then turns a keen eye towards Mainers, their mores and peculiarities, and to the summer rusticators who for generations have invaded the stunning waterfronts. A section on boat building celebrates the extraordinary rescue of Maine’s foremost craft; another on lobsters tells the rich story of the custom, taste, commerce, environmental conflict, and scientific mystery surrounding these critical crustaceans. Here is a true feast - travel literature at its best.

Author : Kate Hotchkiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633812864
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Harbor's Edge written by Kate Hotchkiss and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Wolff
Publisher : National Geographic Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Maine written by Geoffrey Wolff and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sailor himself, Wolff celebrates the harbors, reaches, and coves of a cruising ground that's among the world's finest, and summons the maritime spirit of a region whose yards once dominated American shipbuilding, a tradition still observed both by craftsmen who preserve the art of wooden boatbuilding and by the crews of the Bath Iron Works, which outfits some of our Navy's most advanced ships. He also introduces such Mainers as the canny 19th-century entrepreneur whose business cutting ice from the frozen Kennebec River became a lucrative global industry."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Lincoln Paine
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884485668
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down East: An Illustrated History of Maritime Maine (2) written by Lincoln Paine and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first explorers, to the century of ships, to our modern fisheries and diversification, Maine's maritime story is told in engaging detail. Lincoln Paine has laid down the framework for an understanding of Maine's maritime history by relating the population and landscape of today to their historic foundations. This engaging overview of Maine’s maritime history ranges from early Native American travel and fishing to pre-Plymouth European settlements, wars, international trade, shipbuilding, boom-and-bust fisheries, immigrant quarrymen, quick-lime production, yachting, and modern port facilities, all unfolding against one of the most dramatic seascapes on the planet. Down East can be read in an evening but will be referred to again and again. When the first edition was published in 2000, Walter Cronkite—a veteran Maine coastal sailor as well as The Most Trusted Man in America—wrote that “Paine’s economy of phrase and clarity of purpose make this book a delight.” Paine went on to write his monumental opus The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (PW starred review), but now returns to his first and most abiding love, the coast of Maine, to revise and update this gem of a book. The new edition is printed in a large, full-color format with a stunning complement of historical photos, paintings, charts, and illustrations, making this a truly visual journey along a storied coast.

Author : Earl Brechlin
Publisher : Islandport Press
ISBN 13 : 9781944762803
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine. written by Earl Brechlin and published by Islandport Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine. celebrates more than 300 of the natural wonders, characters, inventors, historical firsts, legends, and landmarks, that give the state its zest.

Author : Carolyn Chute
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555848168
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beans of Egypt, Maine written by Carolyn Chute and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of a down-and-out New England family that “seizes the reader on its opening page with . . . a knock-about country humor unmistakably its own” (Newsweek). There are families like the Beans all over America. They live on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights all year round. The women are often pregnant, the men drunk and just out of jail, and the children too numerous to count. In this novel that “pulses with kinetic energy,” we meet the God-fearing Earlene Pomerleau, and experience her obsession with the whole swarming Bean tribe (Newsweek). There is cousin Rubie, a boozer and a brawler; tall Aunt Roberta, the earth mother surrounded by countless clinging babies; and Beal, sensitive, often gentle, but doomed by the violence within him. In The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Carolyn Chute—whose jobs included waitress, chicken factory worker, and hospital floor scrubber before gaining renown as a prize-winning novelist—creates “a fictional world so vivid and compelling that one feels at a loss when it ends. The Beans belong with the Snopes clan of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, with Erskine Caldwell’s white Southerners, and with the rural blacks of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple” (San Jose Mercury News).

Author : J. Courtney Sullivan
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307595129
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maine written by J. Courtney Sullivan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction.

Author : Geoffrey M. Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633812239
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forever written by Geoffrey M. Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sally Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633812710
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces of Founders written by Sally Williams and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lynn Plourde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934031063
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At One written by Lynn Plourde and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author lyrically celebrates the inspirational beauty of her home state of Maine from Baxter State Park to the Atlantic Ocean.