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Fannie Hardy Eckstorm was an interpreter of nature, an ornithologist, and expert on early Maine history with scientific habits and a mind for detail. This edition compiles many never before published river-driving stories from Fannie Hardy Eckstorm.In this book you will read about Maine characters Big Sebattis Mitchell, Lewey Ketchum, Life Gulliver, Dan Golden, and the notorious outlaw poacher turned game warden, Jock Darling. You'll be on the river with the river-drivers and in the woods with the broad-axe man.The included essays, "Six Years Under Maine Game Laws" provide an historical record in her own words. The reader will find an appreciation for the breadth of Maine topics she was able to write on so clearly. The stories complement the writings by Eckstorm in the books:The Penobscot Man - Life and Death on a Maine RiverandExploring the Maine Woods - The Hardy Family Expedition to the Machias Lakes.

Thomas Sedgwick Steele gives us a story of what it was like in 1880 to travel along the waterways from Moosehead Lake to the Aroostook River in the Maine North Woods. In this part adventure story, part memoir, Steele includes stories of their time on the water, in camp, and descriptions of those they met along the way. The book includes photographs taken during the trip, which would have been a complicated affair with camera equipment of the 1880s, given the water, the rapids, and the portages.This new annotated edition is differentiated with updated history, new facts about the north woods, and includes recent photos.The book will be a grand addition to any reader who enjoys the outdoors and descriptions of wildlife and camping stories.

The updated edition of a Maine outdoor classic with new material and photographs brings this book to life once again.Thomas S. Steele gives us a story of what it was like in 1880 to travel through the Maine woods. In actuality, if you took this trip today most of the miles would reveal themselves to look the same as seen by Steele. In fact, in some instances, with the disappearance of logging camps and supply depots, the route is more remote than it was during his time. Since then, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway has been designated and this part of Maine will remain forever wild.This book is part travel memoir, part guide book, and part historical reference. Those who enjoy camping and canoeing adventures will find this updated and annotated edition a treasure to add to their library.Read about the Maine North Woods. The Allagash. Moosehead Lake.

In Growing up Greenpoint, Tommy Carbone captures what it was like to be a kid during the 1970s and 80s in Brooklyn, New York. This funny, and sometimes emotional, memoir follows the years Tommy was educated not only in the classrooms of St. Stan's, but on the streets of Brooklyn, New York.

An Historical Fiction Mystery set in Maine.When Sarah, a travel writer from New York City, gets sent to Maine on assignment, she's reluctant to go. The Moosehead Lake region of Maine is a place of only bad memories for her.Her fears aside, what she truly isn't prepared for are the poachers, the locals, and meeting Joe Parker, for the second time in her life. What she discovers about herself, her family, and a Boston crime is so much larger than a story for a magazine article. "This book will make you want to visit Maine.""Suspense. Romance. Mystery. This book has it all." * * * * * * * * * * * *Lobster Lake and the Moosehead Lake Region in the North Woods of Maine was always a peaceful and safe place, where nothing much ever happened. That all changes the year Joe Parker was old enough to hunt on his own, the oddly dressed stranger stalked their woods, and the bandits caused some serious trouble.For the Parkers and the game warden, it's a race against the weather, finding clues to the crime, and locating the sneaky backwoods characters who manage to stay one step ahead of them.For Sarah, her feelings for the Maine woods will never be the same.* * * * * * * * * * * *This novel is set in the Moosehead Lake Region of Maine. Moosehead is Maine's largest lake and measures approximately 40 miles long by 10 miles wide. At the center of the lake is Mt. Kineo, the largest rhyolite formation known in the world. The igneous rock was used by Native Americans to craft weapons and tools.Lobster Lake is to the north east of Moosehead, nestled in a remote forest.It is the same pristine wilderness that greeted Henry Thoreau, Lucius Hubbard, Thomas Steele, and Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. It is an area rich in history, but full of mystery and legends. This book will transport you to those woods and the writing will allow you to smell the pine-scented air and hear the call of the loons. After reading, you may just want to visit for yourself.

"We ran away this fall. In fleeing the telegraph, the post-office, the door bells, and all our many masters, we experienced a sweet, if guilty satisfaction, which more than compensated the unpropitious skies that followed us - this is the chronicle of the trip." Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. From a series of articles written in 1891, comes a paddling memoir that weaves together woodlore with a knowledge of literature and Maine history. The writing is superbly descriptive of the Maine woods, the prose is often like poetry, and the feeling of the period is captured on the pages. Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm was not a fur trader like her father, Manly Hardy, or a trapper like her grandfather, but she knew the woods. She was an interpreter of nature, an ornithologist, an expert on early Maine history, with scientific habits and mind for detail. This annotated edition of a Father-Daughter canoe trip celebrates one of the earliest and most talented Maine outdoor writers.Read about the Maine woods, history of the Machias Lakes region, stories about "The Outlaw Jock Darling," the legendary Maine storyteller, "Uncle" Bill Barrett, and even the original Penobscot Man - Big Sebattis Mitchell.This book is more than a memoir of a camping trip, it is a tale of Maine woodcraft and includes details about the Maine woods told only the way those familiar with the region could do so.ISBN 978-1-954048-07-2 is the commemorative dust jacket hardcover edition.

Thomas S. Steele wrote two books about his travels by canoe through the north woods of Maine.Canoe and Camera was written about his trip in the fall of 1879 from Moosehead Lake and down the Penobscot River. Paddle and Portage told of the trip in 1880 across northern Maine and the Aroostook River.Both paddles started from Moosehead Lake, but he paddled over different Maine waterways. These stories tell of what it was like to travel through the forest when roads were non-existent, supply depots were limited, and you had to fend for yourself. It is not all that different in these woods today. Come along for the journey, the stories will entertain you and you might want to visit this magnificent section of Maine for yourself.This hardcover commemorative edition by Maine author and outdoor enthusiast, Tommy Carbone, is updated with new information, photos, and added maps of the time.Thomas Sedgwick Steel was a writer, a photographer, an illustrator, and an avid American outdoorsman. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut and started out in his father's jewelry business. Not only was his writing descriptive of the adventures he had, but he included illustrated engravings, many of which were from his own paintings. Along with his writing and paintings, he also issued a map of northern Maine.

Hubbard and "The Captain" - the 1881 version of Bryson and Katz in "A Walk in the Woods." This is the 2020 Commemorative Annotated Edition in Dust Jacket Hardcover.Written in the spirit of Thoreau's, "The Maine Woods" - this is a classic book about nature, wildlife, and exploring.In the September of 1881, Lucius L Hubbard and "The Captain," set off with their Indian guides, Silas and Joe, for a month-long canoe trip in the Maine north woods. In this text, Hubbard captures the details of their trip from Greenville, at the south end of Moosehead Lake, to Edmundston, New Brunswick. The book describes the scenery, their meals, the wildlife, and what they encountered along the trail.In this new 2020 annotated edition we have included updated notes and new photographs of the area of Maine where the trip took place. The original engraved etchings are digitally mastered from an original 1884 copy of the book.Hubbard wrote this about the adventure, "The keen enjoyment of many hours had made ample amends for the few hardships we had undergone, while the lessons we had had of Nature's teaching will form a priceless treasure-book, of which, when we are far removed from her schoolhouse, we may turn the leaves anew, and read again and again the story we had conned."I am sure readers will treasure this story today, as much as Hubbard treasured the Maine woods that he so carefully describes within these pages.