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Essential Books These 3 items are available for $47, including
U.S. shipping, a 20% discount (Item no. EXUSE191)		  
Moon Handbook Coastal Maine  •  Hilary Nangle
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 483 PAGES
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)		   Moon Handbook Coastal Maine
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)		   Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation
The Americans, the Colonial Experience  •  Daniel Boorstin
HISTORY •  1964 •  PAPER  • 434 PAGES
Winner of the Bancroft Prize, this wide-ranging portrait of colonial America looks to the origins of the American character and its institutions. Essays cover Quakers, Puritans, philanthropists and transplanters, details of colonial life, language, education, medicine, astronomy and fashion. The first book in a trilogy written by the former director of the Library of Congress. (USA05, $16.95)		   The Americans, the Colonial Experience



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New England Map  •  Mad Maps    •  A road map of all of New England, at a scale of 1:600,000. (USE270, $10.95)
 		  
New England Map  •  Mad Maps    •  A road map of all of New England, at a scale of 1:600,000. (USE270, $10.95)
 		  
Boston's Freedom Trail: Trace the Path of American History  •  Robert Booth  •  Shirley Moskow  •  Jack Frost   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handy pocket guide crammed with maps and photographs of the historic sites that make up Boston's Freedom Trail. (BOS05, $8.95)
 		  
Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket: An Explorer's Guide  •  Kimberly Grant   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide to the popular tourist destinations of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, compiled by a local photographer and writer. (USE105, $21.95)
 		  
Compass Guide New Hampshire  •  Compass American   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Compiled by local writers and photographers, this full-color guide covers the history, culture and character of the state and its attractions. (USE392, $21.95)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide Boston  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An exceptionally informative, visually entrancing guide to Boston. (BOS10, $20.00)
 		  
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Frommer's Vermont, New Hampshire & Maine  •  Paul Karr   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout. (USE489, $18.99)
 		  
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)
 		  
Down East, A Maritime History of Maine  •  Lincoln Paine   • HISTORY  •  Maine's maritime history, from the coastal travel of Native Americans to the Basque fishing industry to the pleasure boating of today, incorporating ecology, culture and art into its well researched history. (USE246, $14.95)
 		  
In the Heart of the Sea, The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex  •  Nathaniel Philbrick   • HISTORY  •  The seafaring tale of fearsome whales, cannibalism and sturdy 19th-century Nantucketers; a history of the true life events that inspired Melville's "Moby Dick" -- and a fascinating history of 19th-century society in Nantucket. (OCE47, $16.00)
 		  
Lexington and Concord, The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution  •  Arthur Bernon Tourtellot   • HISTORY  •  A popular history of the opening shots of the American Revolution. (BOS16, $18.95)
 		  
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War  •  Nathaniel Philbrick   • HISTORY  •  National Book Award-winner Philbrick brings the 17th-century Plymouth colony, in all its gruesome detail, to life through its most interesting characters and events. He digs for the truths underlying the myths. (USE388, $16.00)
 		  
Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647  •  William Bradford   • HISTORY  •  A readable, first-hand account of the early days of Plymouth. (USE291, $14.00)
 		  
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The Original Vermonters, Native Inhabitants, Past and Present  •  William A. Haviland  •  Marjory W. Power   • HISTORY  •  A highly readable, scholarly history of the native inhabitants and cultures of Vermont, covering the arrival of the Paleoindians, Abenakis and Iriquois. (USE56, $27.95)
 		  
The Wordy Shipmates  •  Sarah Vowell   • HISTORY  •  Public radio regular Vowelll brings her usual wit and flair to these essays on Puritanism in these United States, combining biography with an exploration of their beliefs and ideals, colonial history and anecdote. (USA326, $16.00)
 		  
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John Adams  •  David McCullough   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A Pulitzer Prize-winning best-selling biography of the second president. McCullough reveals him as a magnificent figure who helped shaped the nation. (USE201, $20.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In  •  Esther Forbes   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An engaging, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the much mythologized hero of the American Revolution first published in 1942. (BOS17, $30.95)
 		  
The Bostonians  •  Henry James   • LITERATURE  •  Henry James' satirical novel of the battle of the sexes is well worth the read. In it, Basil, a Mississippi lawyer, and Olive, a Boston feminist, compete for the affections of the same woman. Originally published in 1886, it was one of the first American novels to deal with lesbianism. (BOS13, $20.00)
 		  
The Dante Club  •  Matthew Pearl   • LITERATURE  •  Rarely has historical fiction, literary reference and murder mystery been fused so effortlessly. Pearl's novel, set in 1865 Boston, tells the gripping tale of a murderer drawing inspiration from Dante's "Divine Comedy." (BOS12, $15.00)
 		  
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Reading the Forested Landscape, A Natural History of New England  •  Tom Wessels  •  Brian Cohen  •  Ann Zwinger   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  In this entertaining, informative book, the history of the New England forest unfolds like a mystery novel. Wessels examines the character of the central New England forest through the clues left behind by fires, logging, storms and economic fads. (USE07, $21.95)
 		  
The Outermost House, A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod  •  Henry Beston   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The chronicle of a year spent living alone in a remote Cape Cod beach house in 1925. These beloved essays, first published in 1928, capture the essence of the Cape, the sea, weather and animal life. (USE41, $15.99)
 		  
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