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Monhegan: A Guide to Maine’s Fabled Island
A Wild Place, Full of Wonder Written and photographed by Mark WarnerDown East Books, 200853 pp, $14.95 In his foreword to Carl Little’s The Art of Monhegan Island, Jamie Wyeth writes: “I have a problem with Monhegan Island … everyone remembers their first lover, don’t they? Perhaps passionately, occasionally longingly, sometimes angrily, but always. I
The Wildest Country: Exploring Thoreau’s Maine
In the mini-woods where my small house sits, with a glimmering dawn diminishing the dark in early a.m. hours these days, I wonder where David Henry – or Henry David, as he preferred to be called – was when he jotted in his journal, “the sun is but a morning star…” Was he in Emerson’s
Do Dolphins Ever Sleep? 211 Questions and Answers about Ships, the Sky and the Sea
“The idea for this book came to me while crossing the Atlantic…by the long, easy southern route. So many weeks at sea had left me plenty of time to appreciate the changing color of the water, the beauty of the night sky…the flights of migrating birds, and to find myself prey to a growing, irresistible
A Coastal Companion: A Year in the Gulf Of Maine, From Cape Cod to Canada
It is mid-April as I write this, flipping pages through this enchanting book, arranged to take us on an ecological, environmental, perceptive creature-journey of a year, from January 1 to December 31, a path touching the rise and receding of seasons and the living forces that harbor planet earth as home. I must watch, I
On the Wind: The Marine Photographs of Norman Fortier
Introductions and captions by Calvin Siegal and Llewellyn Howland III David R. Godine, Publishers, 2007 128 pp., $40 A Quiet Love Affair with a Disappearing Culture Several hundred years B.C. the Greek poet Homer, gazing a-sea at leaning old craft, sails puffed, skimming his local horizon, wrote in The Odyssey: “…their ships are swift as