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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXUSE164)
 
Moon Handbook Coastal Maine  •  Hilary Nangle
GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  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
Maine in America, American Art in the Farnsworth Art Museum  •  Pamela Belanger
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2000 •  HARD COVER  • 300 PAGES
An illustrated survey of the collection at the Farnsworth Museum and a discussion of the influence of Maine in the history of American art. (USE177, $55.00)
  Maine in America, American Art in the Farnsworth Art Museum
The Art of Monhegan Island  •  Carl Little  •  James Wyeth  •  Arnold Skolnick
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2004 •  HARD COVER  • 112 PAGES
Resident expert Carl Little introduces the art and artists of Monhegan, the remote island community of painters and lobstermen. (USE385, $40.00)
  The Art of Monhegan Island
Maine Map & Guide  •  DeLorme Mapping
MAP
This Maine road map (1:580,000) includes insets of cities and towns and, on the reverse, regional, tour and travel information. Two Sides. 36x24 inches. (USE416, $4.95)
  Maine Map & Guide



Also Recommended
Moon Handbook Acadia National Park  •  Kathleen M. Brandes   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This compact guide combines an overview of the history, culture and nature of Maine's Acadia National Park and neighboring Bar Harbor, with practical information for travelers. The book also features photographs, maps and illustrations. (USE322, $17.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
Inventing Acadia, Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert  •  Pamela Belanger   • HISTORY  •  The story of the formation of Acadia National Park in Maine. (USE178, $45.00)
 
 
An American Vision, Three Generations of Wyeth Art  •  James Duff   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A beautifully illustrated collection of the work of three generations of the Wyeth family, including N.C., Andrew and James. It shows how the three men have tackled similar themes and landscapes in their art. (USE180, $35.00)
 
 
Andrew Wyeth, Memory & Magic  •  Anne Knutson   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A critical study and celebration of the work of Andrew Wyeth, encompassing more than 50 years of his paintings and drawings. (USE384, $49.95)
 
 
The Artist's Mount Desert  •  John Wilmerding   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A study of Maine's Mount Desert Island and the artists who have been drawn to its shores. (USE189, $39.50)
 
 
Andrew Wyeth, A Secret Life  •  Richard Meryman   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A comprehensive look at the artist Andrew Wyeth, his life, family and works. Meryman traces three generations of the artistic family, discusses the Maine and Pennsylvania landscapes that inspired the reclusive Andrew, and describes each major work of art. (USE88, $24.99)
 
 
Lobster Chronicles, Life on a Very Small Island  •  Linda Greenlaw   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A former swordboat captain, and a fine writer to boot, Greenlaw returns to the small Maine island where she grew up and takes up the lobstering life. A wonderful depiction of coastal Maine, the lobster industry and a tiny community bound to the sea and each other. (USE352, $13.95)
 
 
N.C. Wyeth, A Biography  •  David Michaelis  •  N. C. Wyeth   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An enthralling biography of the patriarch of the Wyeth clan that examines his career as illustrator of popular adventure novels, as well as the artist's darker side. (USE90, $27.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
Savage Beauty, The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay  •  Nancy Milford   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A vivid biography of the iconic Jazz Age poet by the prolific MiIlford. Richly evocative of both Millay's dynamic personality and the times in which she lived. (NYC176, $16.00)
 
 
Empire Falls  •  Richard Russo   • LITERATURE  •  A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel lovingly set in a fictitious Maine mill town. Russo has composed an entertaining and poignant portrait of what lies beneath the facade of small-town New England life. (USE220, $15.00)
 
 
The Country of the Pointed Firs and other Stories  •  Sarah Orne Jewett   • LITERATURE  •  A much-loved novel, first published in 1896, set in a tiny fishing community along the coast of Maine. It evokes the leisurely summer atmosphere of 19th-century New England and especially the relationships among the townsfolk. (USE181, $5.95)
 
 
The Maine Reader, The Down East Experience, 1614 to Present  •  Charles Shain   • LITERATURE  •  An excellent anthology covering the gamut of the state's culture and history, from early European explorers to the 20th century works of Carolyn Chute, Rachel Carson and John McPhee. (USE57, $20.95)
 
 
The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay  •  Edna St. Vincent Millay  •  Nancy Milford   • LITERATURE  •  A sample of work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning bohemian poet. Includes Renascence and Other Poems, A Few Figs from This-tles, Second April and eight sonnets. (NYC177, $13.95)
 
 
The Maine Woods  •  Henry David Thoreau  •  Edward Hoagland   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Thoreau's excellent renderings of plant, animal and native Indian culture make this one of the enduring writings on the wilderness of Maine. (USE62, $17.00)
 
 

 
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