Lobster Chronicles, The: Life on a Very Small Island
 CAPTIVATING READ.: The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw is just the sort of work that completely captivates me. For the most part, I find my life quite interesting, do find my life quite interesting and have been fortunate enough to do a lot of the [... more]
$30.95
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Amateur Sugar Maker
Beautiful gem rooted in the present: A real gem on how Noel Perrin started sugaring from his own trees. He's revised the book over 20 years, so he's learned from his own mistakes and successes. He has some pithy commentary on Thoreau's costs of cabin [... more]
$14.95
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A Tale of New England: The Diaries of Hiram Harwood, ...
Not as accurate as it should be: I bought this book due to the fact I am a direct descendant of the family that is the topic of this book. I have also read much of the Harwood Diaries themselves and was curious to see the author's interpretations. There [... more]
$50.00
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A Wild, Rank Place: One Year on Cape Cod
Honest, beautiful and sometimes heartbreaking: I had the pleasure of meeting Gessner at a bookstore he made an appearance at. I bought two of his books, "Wild Rank.." and "Return of the Osprey." I was almost unable to put down " [... more]
$15.95
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
Irish whispers: MacDonald characterizes himself as cursed with an "Irish whisper." That is, unable to keep the secrets he's entrusted with under wraps, blaring out what he should have kept hidden. This memoir of the 1970s through the 1990s, [... more]
$27.50
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Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family
Here and Nowhere Else: Here and Nowhere Else captures with its perfect language the timeless undulations of rural living. It is not so much like reading a book as it is like walking the land with someone who respects both the comfort and the pain it can [... more]
$13.00
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Ballantine ...
Irish whispers: MacDonald characterizes himself as cursed with an "Irish whisper." That is, unable to keep the secrets he's entrusted with under wraps, blaring out what he should have kept hidden. This memoir of the 1970s through the 1990s, [... more]
$14.95
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
The blurb doesn't live up to the contents: The assertion a life worth writing about by an individual who can write well proves to be simply that, an assertion. Flynn's talents (?) are mediocre, the book tiresome, repetitive and unfortunately like most of [... more]
$23.95
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Maine's Golden Road: A Memoir
Visiting the the Maine woods with John Gould: Being one who visits the Golden Road almost yearly, I purchased the book with enthusiasm. My experience was mostly positive. Gould demonstrates vast knowledge about the area. He describes: the realities of [... more]
$21.00
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The Hardscrabble Chronicles
HARDSCRABBLE MEETS PEYTON PLACE: Picture in your mind a tweedy, gracefully aging celebrity sportsman fly fishing and bird hunting the world over with equally aging male celebrities. At least that was the public image. Curt Gowdy? Maybe if you only [... more]
$21.95
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The Hardscrabble Chronicles
HARDSCRABBLE MEETS PEYTON PLACE: Picture in your mind a tweedy, gracefully aging celebrity sportsman fly fishing and bird hunting the world over with equally aging male celebrities. At least that was the public image. Curt Gowdy? Maybe if you only [... more]
$14.00
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Henry Thoreau as Remembered by a Young Friend
Another angle: This book is a glowing account of Thoreau's character, written later in life by Ralph Waldo Emerson's son Edward. Edward knew Thoreau up until the latter's death in 1862, when Edward was about 17. He has supplemented his own memory with [... more]
$5.95
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