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The Chesapeake Bay Book, A Complete Guide
Allison Blake Tracy Sahler
GUIDEBOOK 2005 PAPER 320 PAGES
An intimate guidebook to the Bay, lovingly written by a local newspaper reporter. The book covers sites all along the eastern and western shores of the bay, with lots of history and practical information.
(USE17, $18.95)
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, $15.95)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic States
Peter Alden Brian Cassie
FIELD GUIDE 1999 PAPER 448 PAGES
A compact photographic guide to the wildflowers, trees, mosses, butterflies, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals of the Mid-Atlantic States. Apart from its 1,000 photographs, the book also includes an overview of the ecology and habitats of the region and a list of parks and reserves. It covers all of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia and Virginia.
(USE73, $19.95)
United States Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Map
Hallwag
MAP
A detailed road map of the eastern United States stretching from the northern half of Georgia to the southern part of New York and west to Indiana and Mississippi, at a scale of 1:1,200,000. It includes city insets and a helpful road guide with travel tips.
(USS57, $12.95)
Mid-Atlantic States Map
National Geographic
A regional map of the mid atlantic states and the Chesapeake bay
(USS08, $7.95)
New York City Popout Map
Popout Maps
This convenient map of New York has a clever "origami" fold to prevent fussing with unwieldy re-folding.
(NYC26, $7.95)
Eyewitness Guide New York City
Eleanor Berman
GUIDEBOOK
There are hundreds of guides, of course, but we like this one the best. We see more visitors in our West Village neighborhood carrying it around than any other, and they all seem to love it.
(NYC02, $25.00)
Insight City Guide Philadelphia
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive guide, featuring colorful maps, photographs, and essays on the city's history and culture.
(USE99, $16.95)
All the President's Men
Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
HISTORY
The legendary story of two young Washington Post reporters who uncover the Watergate scandal, leading to the resignation of President Nixon.
(WDC03, $14.00)
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs & the Chesapeake Bay
William Warner
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A lovingly-written history of the blue crab, enriched with local color and a vivid overview of the Chesapeake Bay, its ecosystem, history and future.
(USS14, $14.99)
Beyond Philadelphia, The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland
John B. Frantz
William Pencak
HISTORY
A collection of nine essays on different regions in Pennsylvania and the role they played during the Revolutionary War.
(USE92, $30.00)
Confederates in the Attic
Tony Horwitz
HISTORY
Subtitled "Dispatched from the Unfinished Civil War," this book conjures the remarkable, ongoing interest in the Civil War. Horwitz draws much history into this account of travels through former battlefields.
(USS35, $14.95)
Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis
HISTORY
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, $14.95)
Gotham, A History of New York up to 1898
Mike Wallace
Edwin G. Burrows
HISTORY
This 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner for history is a vast volume that traces the Dutch colonization to 1898. Jam-packed with tales of crime, violence, corruption, riots and ethnic struggles, it is anything but dull. Highly recommended.
(NYC11, $34.95)
Here is New York
E.B. White
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
FAVORITE
Written in a hotel room over two hot days in the summer of 1948, White's timeless love letter (it's easily read in an hour) captures the spirit of New York. It's a swift, lyrical portrait of the city that moves from Broadway to Central Park and the Hudson River to favorite haunts on 3rd Avenue.
(NYC28, $16.95)
Philadelphia, A 300-Year History
Russell F. Weigley
Edward Wolf
Nicholas B. Wainwright
Joseph E. Illick
Thomas Wendel
HISTORY
A comprehensive history of Philadelphia that examines the city's political, artistic, physical, and social development.
(USE98, $35.00)
The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787
Gordon S. Wood
HISTORY
This sweeping political history examines America's transformation from colony to republic during the Revolutionary War.
(USE79, $25.00)
Jefferson's Monticello
William Howard Adams
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An illustrated history of Thomas Jefferson and the construction of Monticello.
(USE125, $39.95)
Lost New York
Nathan Silver
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This classic, published in 1967, was the urban preservationists' bible. It's a magnificent survey of the history and architectural development of the city, including many of the great buildings lost to the wrecking ball.
(NYC13, $25.00)
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The entertaining account of Bryon's hike up the Appalachian trail, combining biting satire with a certain warmth. A fond memoir and a very entertaining read.
(USE01, $14.95)
An Island out of Time, A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
Tom Horton
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An evocative memoir of two years on an island off the coast of Maryland.
(USE16, $14.00)
Imagining Philadelphia, Travelers' Views of the City from 1800 to the Present
Philip Stevick
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A collection of travel narratives, correspondence, diaries, and fiction dating as far back as 1800.
(USE91, $37.50)
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)
Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories
Joseph Mitchell
ANTHOLOGY
Mitchell's collection of loving, extraordinarily vivid, short pieces, depicting New York in the 40's and 50's. He was a master at painting character, and place, in swift strokes.
(NYC61, $16.95)
Brotherly Love
Daniel Hoffman
LITERATURE
An extended poem that reflects on William Penn's vision for America and the conflicts that have arisen to challenge this ideal.
(USE101, $16.95)
Chesapeake
James Michener
LITERATURE
Michener works his usual magic, this time on the Chesapeake Bay, telling the history of the region through the story of a colorful family.
(USS15, $15.95)
Cloudsplitter
Russell Banks
LITERATURE
The incomparable Russell Banks tries his hand at historical fiction. Owen Brown, son of John Brown, is the narrator, telling the story of his father and how the events of the great abolitionist's life have ultimately shaped his own. Epic, well researched and powerful.
(USS196, $16.95)
Philadelphia Fire, A Novel
John Edgar Wideman
LITERATURE
In this novel, an African American writer returns to West Philadelphia to write a book on the 1985 police bombing of a black organization and searches for the one surviving child. Winner of the Pen Faulkner Award.
(USE102, $13.00)
Sleepless Nights
Elizabeth Hardwick
LITERATURE
Harwick's luminous 1979 novel of longing, desolation, New York City and Billie Holiday, thankfully returned to print. Read it for the extraordinary language, the flavor of 1940s New York.
(NYC21, $12.95)
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara
LITERATURE
The powerful, Pulitzer Prize winning novel of Gettsyburg that recreates the battle, personalities and anguish of those fateful days.
(USS36, $13.95)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Washington Irving
LITERATURE
Traveling to the Hudson River Valley? Stay awake nights with this great, suspenseful yarn -- or rest easy and read some of the American master's gentler short works.
(NYC23, $8.95)
Time and Again
Jack Finney
LITERATURE
In this altogether wonderful novel, Simon Morley -- an illustrator and secret government operative, native to 1970 New York -- is transported back in time to the Manhattan of the 1880s.
(NYC45, $14.95)
Life in the Chesapeake Bay
Alice Jane Lippson
Robert L. Lippson
NATURAL HISTORY
This combination field guide and ecological primer on the Chesapeake Bay is a comprehensive guide to local plants and animals which describes the wetlands habitat in which they live.
(USS17, $25.00)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
NATURAL HISTORY
Dillard's exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons in her own backyard in Tinker Creek, Virginia won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975.
(NAT112, $14.95)
A Field Guide to Eastern Trees
George Petrides
Roger Tory Peterson
FIELD GUIDE
The classic guide.
(NAM09, $20.00)
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)
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