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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 ...

Case Laminate Hardcover Edition. * David Stone Libbey was a Maine river-driver, lumberman, farmer, Civil War soldier, inventor, machinist, hunter, and outdoor writer. This book includes the writings from his journal and articles he published between 1850 and 1904 under his pen name of 'Penobscot.' * In Maine, the Penobscot River, before meeting the main branch leading to the Atlantic Ocean, has four branches that span throughout northern main....

These are strange stories, but they well up out of the hearts of men, and in them are the issues of life. Men do not perish alone, unknown, forsaken, forgotten. The constitution of the universe forbids. The truth about them must leap out some time, and be written on the skies like the flashes of the midnight Aurora, somewhere it is to be known what they were, where they failed, wherein they made their conquests, - their treachery, their faithf...

Stories from the Maine Woods. This volume is compilation of short stories, essays, poems and legends about the Maine woods from: Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, Manly Hardy, Thomas W. Higginson, and Tommy Carbone, with the poems of Anna Boynton Averill. Do you know the true legend of Katahdin's Pamola? Have you heard of the toils of Maine's Mud Pond Carry? What Maine town has a population of "not many" but has had the names of its river and ponds re...

David Stone Libbey was a Maine river-driver, lumberman, farmer, Civil War soldier, inventor, machinist, hunter, and outdoor writer. This book includes the writings from his journal and articles he published between 1850 and 1904 under his pen name of 'Penobscot.'*In Maine, the Penobscot River, before meeting the main branch leading to the Atlantic Ocean, has four branches that span throughout northern main. Libbey used the Penobscot pen name t...

These are strange stories, but they well up out of the hearts of men, and in them are the issues of life. Men do not perish alone, unknown, forsaken, forgotten. The constitution of the universe forbids. The truth about them must leap out some time, and be written on the skies like the flashes of the midnight Aurora, somewhere it is to be known what they were, where they failed, wherein they made their conquests, - their treachery, their faithf...

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 ...

A Maine Classic Guide Book with history and legends.This beautiful hardcover is updated with new material, notes, and annotations.Dr. Lucius Lee Hubbard spent his vacations in the Moosehead Lake Region of Maine and the even more remote north woods. This guide not only details the wilderness lakes, pond, rivers, and mountains, it also contains historical notes, Native American legends, and tips for camping excursions. In his writing, Hubbard ca...

Tommy Carbone brings you right to the Maine woods in his new novel. You're not going to want to stop reading." - George Smith, Maine's Bangor Daily News, Book Reviews.For a winter get-away, Sarah visits Joe at his Maine camp. When things go missing, including Joe, her thoughts of a peaceful time in the north woods disappear. Their survival may depend on determining who is there - and why. The clues uncovered lead to a discovery that has been m...

Tommy Carbone brings you right to the Maine woods in his new novel. You're not going to want to stop reading." - George Smith, Maine's Bangor Daily News, Book Reviews.For a winter get-away, Sarah visits Joe at his Maine camp. When things go missing, including Joe, her thoughts of a peaceful time in the north woods disappear. Their survival may depend on determining who is there - and why. The clues uncovered lead to a discovery that has been m...

Hubbard and "The Captain" - the 1881 version of Bryson and Katz in "A Walk in the Woods." This is the 2020 Commemorative Annotated Edition.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 cap...

Nothing much really happens in the north woods of Maine, that is, until you mix seaplanes, poachers, game wardens, and strangers in a mystery at the lake. Three generations of the Parker family had grown up in the woods near Maine's Lobster Lake. The Parkers knew the roads, trails, and lakes around their cabin better than anyone, except maybe the local game warden. It was always a peaceful and safe place. That all changed the year Joe Parker r...