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The Charleston, Savannah & Coastal Islands Book, A Complete Guide
Cecily McMillan Wade Spees
GUIDEBOOK 2008 PAPER 320 PAGES
An excellent, locally produced travel guide mixing history, culture and anecdote with a shipload of up-to-date practical information. It does justice to this area's rich traditions and food.
(USS13, $18.95)
Insiders' Guide to Williamsburg and Virginia's Historic Triangle
Mary Alice Blackwell
GUIDEBOOK 2008 PAPER 369 PAGES
Practical information on what to do in Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown, including sites, food and lodging.
(USE10, $18.95)
Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis
HISTORY 2002 PAPER 304 PAGES
A riveting tale of Washington, Madison, Hamilton and especially of Jefferson and Adams. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, it's a fascinating glimpse into the early days of our country.
(USE244, $15.00)
My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries and Preoccupations
Howard Norman
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 2004 HARD COVER 208 PAGES
FAVORITE
Howard Norman returned to Nova Scotia over a period of 30 years to interview local legends and research the folklore of the area. Norman writes with an impressionistic intimacy to create a portrait of this enchanting place and its people. A volume in the National Geographic Directions series.
(CND204, $20.00)
Eastern USA Map
Rand McNally Maps
MAP
A fold-up map of the Eastern United States, shown at a scale of 1:2,300,000. Two Sides. 39x28 inches.
(USE127, $4.95)
Atlantic Canada Map
Rand McNally Maps
A double-sided map of the Maritime Provinces, including Newfoundland on the reverse, at a scale of 1:950,000.
(CND50, $4.95)
Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown, The Official Guide to America's Historic Triangle
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
REFERENCE
This guidebook has all the information you need about Virginia's "Historic Triangle," where the nation began.
(USE428, $16.95)
Lonely Planet Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island
Karla Zimmerman
GUIDEBOOK
This handy, compact guide to Atlantic Canada covers Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island in detail, and includes a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador. With maps, travel information and short essays on culture, attractions and nature.
(CND291, $16.99)
Moon Handbook Coastal Maine
Hilary Nangle
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive, highly recommended guide to the places and pleasures of Coastal Maine, including highlights in and around Portland and Acadia National Park.
(USE363, $19.95)
Secret Providence and Newport, The Unique Guidebook to Providence and Newport's Hidden Sites, Sounds and Tastes
Barbara Radcliffe Rogers
Juliette Rogers
GUIDEBOOK
A guide to the lesser known attractions of Providence and Newport, from Edgar Allen Poe's favorite garden to where to find an unexpected gathering of green parrots.
(USE380, $14.95)
A Short History of Charleston
Robert Rosen
HISTORY
A short, authoritative, and lively history of Charleston by a native son. Rosen, a third-generation Charlestonian, recounts Charleston's history, communicating the town's considerable flavor. With 84 black-and-white photos.
(USS12, $16.95)
Coastal Maine, A Maritime History
Roger Duncan
HISTORY
A four hundred year history of Maine, focusing on maritime traditions and seafaring, as well coastal settlement and development.
(USE247, $24.95)
The Americans, the Colonial Experience
Daniel Boorstin
HISTORY
Winner of the Bancroft Prize, this wide-ranging portrait of colonial America looks to the origins of the American character and its institutions.
(USA05, $16.95)
The Transformation of Virginia 1740-1790
Rhys Isaac
HISTORY
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Isaac analyzes Virginia's social history during the tumultuous years between 1740-1790.
(USE78, $22.95)
Classic Savannah: History, Houses and Gardens
William Robert Mitchell
Van J. Martin
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A quick tour of Savannah, focusing on its sumptuous architecture.
(USS269, $35.00)
Private Newport, At Home and in the Garden
Bettie Bearden Pardee
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A sumptuous photographic tour of 18 opulent mansions and estates in Newport, Rhode Island.
(USE345, $45.00)
American Sphinx
Joseph J. Ellis
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
More character study than strict biography, this celebrated book describes and defines Thomas Jefferson's beliefs, influences and aspirations.
(USA51, $16.00)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Berendt magically turned his relatively brief stay in Savannah into a rollicking and sensitive portrait of the city, capturing a great variety of colorful characters and the spirit of the place.
(USS09, $15.00)
One Man's Meat
E.B. White
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
By the author of "Charlotte's Web," a collection of observant and often humorous essays about daily life on a Maine saltwater farm. A wonderful portrait of coastal small-town life, originally published in 1938.
(USE43, $14.95)
The Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Peter S. Onuf
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
This collection of essays provides an intimate look into the political and personal concerns and motivations of Jefferson, and an assessment of his significance in American culture.
(USA371, $25.00)
The Water is Wide
Pat Conroy
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The engrossing tale of Conroy's two-year stint as a Vista volunteer at a rural school on Yamacraw Island near Hilton Head, one of his first books. Conroy is a native of Beaufort, and South Carolina's low country features prominently in his many entertaining novels.
(USS354, $15.00)
Burden of Desire
Robert MacNeil
LITERATURE
An intricate, suspenseful novel of love and war set against the backdrop of the 1917 explosion that destroyed the north end of Halifax. Written by the noted newsman Robert MacNeil.
(CND23, $16.00)
Island, The Complete Stories
Alistair MacLeod
LITERATURE
From one of Canada's most important writers comes a collection of stories about family and tradition in Nova Scotia. They tell of a young generation who has adapted to the New World but still tries to find their place within the Old World traditions of Scotland.
(CND73, $14.95)
Lady Baltimore
Owen Wister
LITERATURE
This novel is set in Charleston just after the Civil War, when the traditional values of the Old South were in great conflict with those of the victorious northerners. First published in 1906, it's a classic southern portrait.
(USS22, $10.95)
The Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy
LITERATURE
To help the psychiatrist treating his suicidial sister, Tom Wingo travels from South Carolina to New York, to describe his family's past in this bestseller by Pat Conroy. Using the frame of Tom's conversations with a psychiatrist, Conroy paints an evocative portrait of a hard life in South Carolina's low-country marshland.
(USS422, $7.99)
Cod, A Biography of a Fish That Changed the World
Mark Kurlansky
NATURAL HISTORY
A sparkling extended essay on the cod in the tradition of Lopez or McPhee, looking at the importance of the fish to cuisine and commerce, throwing much light on the plight of the Grand Banks and fisheries.
(OCE10, $15.00)
A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife: Marine Mammals, Seabirds, Fish and Other Sea Life
Noble S. Proctor
Patrick J. Lynch
FIELD GUIDE
A comprehensive pocket guide to commonly encountered marine mammals, seabirds and other marine life of Northeastern North America, from North Carolina to Newfoundland and the Canadian Maritimes.
(NAM24, $19.95)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England
Brian Cassie
Peter Alden
FIELD GUIDE
A compact, easy-to-use overview of 1,000 of New England's trees, wildflowers, mammals, insects and other flora and fauna. It also provides an extensive overview of the area's geology, weather patterns and natural sites.
(USE06, $19.95)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic States
Peter Alden
Brian Cassie
FIELD GUIDE
A compact photographic guide to the wildflowers, trees, mosses, butterflies, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals of the Mid-Atlantic States.
(USE73, $19.95)
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
National Geographic
FIELD GUIDE
From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry.
(FG09, $24.00)
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
David Sibley
FIELD GUIDE
A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird with status, habitat, range, voice and identifying marks.
(USE262, $19.95)
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