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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/HQ4006. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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These 5 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXUSE206) |
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Eyewitness Guide New England
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 416 PAGES
This superb guide to Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a synopsis of the region's attractions. It also devotes a section to Boston. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(USE294, $25.00) |
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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) |
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New England Autumn
• Ferenc Mate
• Candace Mate
NATURAL HISTORY •
2010 •
HARD COVER
• 160 PAGES
Magnificent photographs of farmsteads, pastures, forests, wharves and villages from Maine to Connecticut are paired with the poetry and literature of Dickinson, Thoreau and Waldo Emerson in this pictorial celebration of season. With a 14-page section of maps and practical travel information.
(USE337, $25.00) |
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England
• Brian Cassie
• Peter Alden
FIELD GUIDE •
1998 •
FLEXI-BOUND
• 448 PAGES
A compact, easy-to-use guide to 1,000 of New England's trees, wildflowers, mammals, insects, birds and other flora and fauna. It also provides an extensive overview of the area's geology, weather patterns and natural sites. With more than 1,300 photographs and 20 maps.
(USE06, $19.95) |
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New England Map
• Mad Maps
MAP
A road map of all of New England, at a scale of 1:600,000. Two Sides. 36x24 inches.
(USE270, $10.95) |
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Also Recommended
Insight Guide New England
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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For a good overview of the region, you can't go wrong with this guide, noted for its wonderful photography, superb production and outstanding color maps.
(USE38, $24.99)
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The Americans, the Colonial Experience
• Daniel Boorstin
• HISTORY
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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)
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The Most Beautiful Villages of New England
• Tom Shachtman
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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In this coffee-table book, New England's most picturesque towns and villages are presented through 240 full color photographs. Accompanying descriptions fill in details about each town's history and architecture.
(USE42, $40.00)
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The National Parks, America's Best Idea
• Dayton Duncan
• Ken Burns
• HISTORY
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The widescreen edition of Ken Burn's 6-part, 12-hour ode to the national parks, featuring hundreds of interviews, fascinating archival images and dazzling cinematography in High Definition.
(USA394, $99.99)
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Green Mountain Farm
• Elliott Merrick
• Lawrence Millman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An entertaining, wry account of abandoning the city for rural Vermont during the Depression. A classic.
(USE298, $14.95)
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Norman Rockwell, A Life
• Laura Claridge
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A provocative biography of the iconic American illustrator, detailing his life and work.
(USE348, $16.95)
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One Man's Meat
• E.B. White
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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)
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Empire Falls
• Richard Russo
• LITERATURE
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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)
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The House by the Sea, A Journal
• May Sarton
• LITERATURE
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One of many journals by May Sarton, who moved from New Hampshire to live alone in a house on the seacoast of Maine. She writes beautifully on the topics of aging, solitude, nature, gardening, food, relationships, and of course, on life in coastal Maine.
(USE61, $21.00)
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Walden and Other Writings
• Henry David Thoreau
• LITERATURE
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The 150th anniversary illustrated edition of the Thoreau's musings on nature, the simple life, self-reliance and the value of freedom.
(GEN183, $35.00)
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
• William Cronon
• NATURAL HISTORY
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In this ecological -- and social -- history of New England, Cronon documents the ecological changes and impact of European colonization.
(USE347, $15.00)
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Reading the Forested Landscape, A Natural History of New England
• Tom Wessels
• Brian Cohen
• Ann Zwinger
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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)
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The National Parks, America's Best Idea
• Ken Burns
• Dayton Duncan
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Now in a paper edition, this lavishly illustrated tale by the dynamic PBS duo brings to life the conservationists, politicians, presidents and dreamers who created our national park system.
(USA356, $32.50)
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Maine Trees & Wildflowers
• James Kavanagh
• FIELD GUIDE
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This plastic card illustrates 140 common species of trees, shrubs and wildflowers.
(USE446, $5.95)
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New England Butterflies & Moths, An Introduction to Familiar Species
• James Kavanagh
• FIELD GUIDE
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This handy plastic card covers 70 familiar species.
(USE445, $5.95)
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New England Wildlife
• Raymond Leung
• James Kavanaugh
• FIELD GUIDE
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This laminated, fold-out, pocket-size guide features illustrations of almost 150 species of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals.
(USE234, $5.95)
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
• David Sibley
• FIELD GUIDE
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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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