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These 5 items are available for $76, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXUSE166)

Moon Handbook Vermont  •  Michael Blanding  •  Alexandra Hall TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 236 PAGES A practical guide to Vermont in the reliable, up-to-date Moon Handbooks series. It includes helpful information on accommodations, activities and attractions, along with historical and cultural tidbits. (USE447, $16.95)
Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape, Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks  •  Bill McKibben TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2005 •  HARD COVER  • 160 PAGES McKibben (The End of Nature) recounts a three-week trek from his new house in Vermont to his old place in the Adirondacks, meeting friends along the way and meditating on the meaning of wilderness. McKibben, a fomer staff writer at The New Yorker, is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. Part of the excellent Crown Journeys series. (NYS32, $16.95)
The Nature of Vermont, Introduction and Guide to a New England Environment  •  Charles W. Johnson NATURAL HISTORY •  1998 •  PAPER  • 354 PAGES Opening with a discussion of the geologic history of Vermont, Johnson provides an lively survey of major habitats, plants and animals of the state. An excellent survey of natural history, more useful as background than as a field guide. The text is accompanied by 140 diagrams, charts and black-and-white photographs. (USE45, $22.95)
Reading the Forested Landscape, A Natural History of New England  •  Tom Wessels  •  Brian Cohen  •  Ann Zwinger NATURAL HISTORY •  1999 •  PAPER  • 200 PAGES In this thoughtful book, Wessels examines the character of the central New England forest through the clues left behind by fires, logging, storms, and economic fads (not to mention beavers, blowdowns and blights). With black-and-white etchings illustrating disturbance patterns, checklist of trees by substrate and glossary. (USE07, $18.95)
Vermont Map  •  Northern Cartographic MAP A double-sided road map of Vermont, shown at a scale of 1:317,000, with 15 detailed city maps, points of interest and travel suggestions. (USE51, $4.95)

Roadside Geology, Vermont and New Hampshire  •  Bradford B. Van Diver  •  David D. Alt   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Designed for the roadside traveler, this book explains the geologic history of Vermont and New Hampshire. Each section is organized around a particular route, with photographs complementing detailed geologic maps. (USE54, $14.00)
Walking  •  Henry David Thoreau   • REFERENCE  •  You may want to carry this small volume in your daypack for inspiration. In it, Thoreau offers his meditations on the spiritual benefits of this most civilized form of travel. (WLK04, $9.95)
The Most Beautiful Villages of New England  •  Tom Shachtman  •  Len Rubenstein   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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, $24.95)
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, $25.95)
Green Mountain Farm  •  Elliott Merrick  •  Lawrence Millman   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An entertaining, wry account of abandoning the city for rural Vermont during the Depression. A classic. (USE298, $14.95)
After Frost, An Anthology of Poetry from New England  •  Henry Lyman  •  Robert Frost  •  Wallace Stevens   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of poems from 30 of New England's most notable poets, with selections by Robert Frost, the granddaddy of New England poetry. Other featured poets include Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath. (USE52, $22.95)
Disappearances  •  Howard Frank Mosher   • LITERATURE  •  Mosher's award-winning first novel is the enchanting story of a young man and his whiskey-smuggling father and their adventures in the wilderness of northern Vermont in 1932. (USE378, $13.95)
The Inn at Lake Devine  •  Elinor Lipman   • LITERATURE  •  Set in the 1960s, this is a romantic comedy about a young Jewish woman who becomes fixated on an anti-Semitic resort in Vermont. (USE50, $13.95)
A New England Autumn  •  Ferenc Mate  •  Candace Mate   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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, $39.95)
Field Notes from the Northern Forest  •  Curt Stager   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Combining the latest in scientific literature with his own observations, Sager's natural science essays explore the lives of the animals, plants and fungi commonly encountered in the forests of eastern North America. (USE03, $19.95)
Hands on the Land, A History of the Vermont Lanscape  •  Jan Albers   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Jan Albers traces the impact of human communities on the landscapes of Vermont, a unique perspective on the history of the state from the time of the Native Americans to today. (USE300, $21.95)
In Season, A Natural History of the New England Year  •  Nona Bell Estrin  •  Charles W. Johnson   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A loosely organized, illustrated overview of New England and its wildlife as depicted in watercolor paintings and short essays. (USE299, $25.95)
Reading the Mountains of Home  •  John Elder   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Using Robert Frost's poem "Directive" as a companion on a journey through the woods of Vermont, John Elder weaves scholarly analysis with reflections on the cycles of loss and recovery in his own life and in nature. (USE55, $20.50)
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)
New England Wildlife  •  Raymond Leung  •  James Kavanaugh   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This laminated, fold-out, pocket-size guide features illustrations of almost 150 species of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals. (USE234, $5.95)
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)