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Compass Guide Maine
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK 2005 PAPER 320 PAGES
This handsome guide is an excellent overview of Maine, with particular emphasis on history and visitor attractions. With color and archival photographs, it features good maps, some practical travel information and literary excerpts by writers such as Henry Longfellow and Mary Sarton.
(USE63, $21.95)
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)
The Maine Reader, The Down East Experience, 1614 to Present
Charles Shain
LITERATURE 1997 PAPER 524 PAGES
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. Selections from Longfellow, Thoreau, Millay and Jewett appear alongside some rare gems, such as an excerpt from the journal of one of Benedict Arnold's foot soldiers.
(USE57, $20.95)
One Man's Meat
E.B. White
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 1997 PAPER 279 PAGES
A collection of observant, personal, and often humorous essays about daily life on a Maine saltwater farm. Originally published in 1938, and written by E.B. White, author of the children's classics "Charlotte's Web," "Trumpet of the Swan" and "Stuart Little," this book is a wonderful portrait of coastal, small town life.
(USE43, $14.95)
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont Map
Universal Map Enterprises
MAP
A full-color road map of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont at a scale of 1:467,000 with city-to-city mileage chart and insets of cities and points of interest.
(USE76, $4.95)
Acadia National Park Map
Trails Illustrated
A hiker's detailed topographic map of Acadia National Park, shown at a scale of 1:50,000, printed on tear-resistant, waterproof paper.
(USE154, $11.95)
Maine Map
A Maine road map at a scale of 1:580,000 with a detailed map of the coast from Kittery to Bar Harbor and inset maps of 23 cities and towns.
(USE416, $3.95)
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, $16.95)
Moon Handbook Coastal Maine
Hilary Nangle
GUIDEBOOK
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)
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)
North to Katahdin
Eric Pinder
HISTORY
A personal portrait of Maine's highest mountain and the northernmost point on the Appalachian Trail. Author Eric Pinder is a native New Englander and former coordinator for the Appalachian Mountain Club.
(USE368, $15.95)
The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier
Colin Woodard
HISTORY
A fascinating cultural history of coastal Maine as seen through the lobstering industry.
(USE355, $16.00)
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)
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)
The Edge Of Maine
Geoffrey Wolff
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A portrait of the coast of Maine, its culture, geology and history, by a writer long familiar with the region. With chapters on lobsters and boat building (among other topics). A volume in the series National Geographic Directions.
(USE367, $20.00)
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, $14.95)
The Cider House Rules
John Irving
LITERATURE
This is John Irving's story of a teenage orphan named Homer Wells who lives in rural Maine. Growing up under the tutelage of Dr. Wilbur Larch, an abortionist and administrator of the local orphanage, Homer must face the moral dilemmas that surround him.
(USE46, $14.95)
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, $4.95)
The House by the Sea, A Journal
May Sarton
LITERATURE
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, $14.95)
Acadia National Park Wildlife, An Introduction to Familiar Species
James Kavanagh
NATURAL HISTORY
A handy, shirt-pocket guide with illustrations of commonly encountered wildlife in Acadia.
(USE438, $5.95)
Against the Tide, The Fate of the New England Fisherman
Richard Adams Carey
NATURAL HISTORY
A discussion the crisis that faces the New England fishing industry from a journalist who spent a year among the fishermen of Cape Cod.
(USE44, $13.00)
Maine, The Seasons
Terrell S. Lester
NATURAL HISTORY
A celebration of Maine featuring 127 color photographs and essays by Maine writers: Richard Ford writes on winter, Elizabeth Strout on spring, Ann Beattie on summer and Richard Russo on fall.
(USE224, $35.00)
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, $18.95)
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, $16.00)
The Secret Life of Lobsters, How Fishermen and Scientists are Unraveling the Mysteries of our Favorite Crustacean
Trevor Corson
SCIENCE
Corson unravels the behavior of lobster and lobstermen on Little Cranberry Island in the Gulf of Maine. Besides dealing with the lobstermen-scientist row over quotas, the book offers an in depth look into the social behavior of these strange (and strangely abundant) crustaceans.
(USE340, $13.95)
Life Between the Tides, Marine Plants and Animals of the Northeast
Jill Fegley
John Moring
Les Watling
FIELD GUIDE
A compact, convenient guide to habitats, invertebrates, fishes, and marine plants, written for the University of Maine's Sea Grant program.
(USE351, $15.00)
Maine Trees & Wildflowers
James Kavanagh
FIELD GUIDE
This plastic card illustrates 140 common species of trees, shrubs and wildflowers.
(USE446, $5.95)
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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