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DORYMAN'S DAY By Captain R Barry Fisher
"By Captain R. Barry Fisher Autobiographical tales of a Gloucester Masschusettes fisherman who began as a wharf rat in...
$5.00
ONE MAN'S MEAT By E. B. White
By E.B.White. With a new foreward by Roger Angell. "What is possibly the single best book on the Down East experience...
$14.95
ON WILDERNESS, VOICES FROM MAINE Edited By Phyllis Austin, Dean Bennett, and Robert Kimber
Edited by Phyllis Austin, Dean Bennett and Robert Kimber. Nearly forty writers, artists and photographers in this extraordinary...
$15.00
SILAS CROCKETT By Mary Ellen Chase
By Mary Ellen Chase. Traces life on the Maine coast through four generations of a seafaring family. From the era of clipper...
$15.95
THE COWS ARE OUT! TWO DECADES ON A MAINE DAIRY FARM By Trudy Chambers Price.
By Trudy Chambers Price. Growing up in Aroostook County, Maine, the author picked potatoes for 25 cents a barrel. She and...
$15.95
MARY PETERS By Mary Ellen Chase
By Mary Ellen Chase. MARY PETERS is rooted in the history of Maine. It is filled with descriptions of the natural world, both at...
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BILLY BOY, THE SUNDAY SOLDIER OF THE 17TH MAINE By Jean Mary Flahive
Inspired by a true event, this tale of friendship, loyalty, and compassion will enthrall readers of all ages. Paperback.
$15.95
L IS FOR LOBSTER- A Maine Alphabet- By Cynthia Furlong Reynolds, Illustrated by Jeannie Brett
Tells the history of Maine using the alphabet. Playful rhymes will make it a favorite of children and adults.
Written by Cynthia...
Written by Cynthia...
$17.95
ONE MORNING IN MAINE- By Robert McCloskey
ONE MORNING IN MAINE-written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. Caldecott Honor Book By the author of MAKE WAY FOR ...
$17.99
SHELLFISH HERITAGE COOKBOOK Compiled By Robert H. Robinson and William H. McCauley
A collection of old prints, photographs and current recipes. Softcover.
$19.95
IMAGES OF AMERICA: MAINE'S COVERED BRIDGES By Joseph D. Conwill
By Joseph D. Conwill. Photographs of covered bridges, only seven still standing, the rest long gone, throughout the state of...
$19.99
IMAGES OF AMERICA: THE PORTLAND COMPANY, 1846-1982 By David H. Fletcher
By David H. Fletcher. The Portland Company began manufacturing railroad locomotives for the Atlantic & St. Lawrence...
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UNSETTLED PAST, UNSETTLED FUTURE: THE STORY OF MAINE INDIANS By Neil Rolde
By Neil Rolde. A history of the Indians in Maine, spanning the pre-history, the first contact between Europeans and Indians,...
$20.00
CHANGING MAINE 1960-2010 Edited by Richard Barringer, Illustrated by Jon Luoma
Edited by Richard Barringer, Illustrated by Jon Luoma Twenty-two speakers, at a 2003-2004 public lecture series examed...
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THE MAINE READER by Charles Shain and Samuella Shain
The Down East Experience from 1614 to the Present
This book that captures the full sweep of Maine's culture and history,...
This book that captures the full sweep of Maine's culture and history,...
$20.95
IN MAINE By John N. Cole
By John N. Cole. A noted Maine essayist, this collection is subtitled, "Essays on Life's Seasons" with essays titled,...
$21.95
IMAGES OF AMERICA: BATH IRON WORKS By Andrew C. Toppan
By Andrew C. Toppan. A collection of photographs of the Bath Iron Works, located in Bath, Maine, from the beginning of the...
$21.99
HAULING BY HAND, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A MAINE ISLAND By Dean Lawrence Lunt
By Dean Lawrence Lunt. A realistic look at the history of Outer Long Island, eight miles off the Maine coast. Originally founded...
$22.95
RALPH STANLEY: Tales of a Maine Boat Builder By Craig Milner and Ralph W. Stanley
Ralph stanley of Southwest Harbor, Maine is one of the best known most talented designers and builders of wooden boats in...
$24.95
BASEBALL'S FIRST INDIAN By Ed Rice
Born in 1871, on Maine's Penobscot Indian Reservation and nephew of a chief, Louis Sockalexis became professional...
$24.95
FLY ROD CROSBY, THE WOMAN WHO MARKETED MAINE
By Julia Hunter and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Cornelia Thurza Crosby (1854-1946) stood six feet tall, was the first woman to...
$25.00
PAINTINGS OF MAINE Compiled By Arnold Skolnick and Carl Little
Compiled by Arnold Skolnick and Carl Little. Nearly every prominent U.S. landscape artist has painted Maine's rugged coast,...
$25.95
THE SKOLFIELDS AND THEIR SHIPS By Erminie S. Reynolds and Kenneth R. Martin
By Erminie S. Reynolds and Kenneth R. Martin. The Skolfields, a prominent ship building family from Harpswell, Maine, that...
$27.95
THE CAMERA'S COAST By W.H. Bunting
Written by W.H. Bunting this book depicts historic images of ship and shore in New England. There are 252 black and white...
$29.95
DOWN ON THE ISLAND, UP ON THE MAIN, A RECOLLECTED HISTORY OF SOUTH BRISTOL, MAINE By Ellen Vincent
Compiled and annotated by Ellen Vincent. This oral history of South Bristol, Maine, grew from the community to create a...
$30.00
DOWN THE SHORE, THE FACES OF MAINE'S COASTAL FISHERIES Photographs by Nance Trueworthy, Text by Michael Crowley
Photographs by Nance Trueworthy, Text by Michael Crowley. Here is an accurate and handsome portrait of the men and...
$30.00
SEASTRUCK By W.H. Bunting
by W.H. Bunting. "Seastruck" is about the final decades of American square-rigged sail, as recorded in firsthand...
$30.00
SNOW SQUALL: THE LAST AMERICAN CLIPPER SHIP By Nicholas Dean & David Switzer
The SNOW SQUALL was a Maine Built Clipper Ship , whose bow section was rescued from the remote Falkland Islands by the...
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THE OLD TOWN CANOE COMPANY, OUR FIRST HUNDRED YEARS By Susan T. Audette and David E. Baker
By Susan T. Audette with David E. Baker. The Old Town Canoe Company has a rich history, and its story is told here in...
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A SHIPYARD IN MAINE By Ralph Linwood Snow and Captain Douglas K. Lee
The Percy & Small shipyard, now part of Maine Maritime Museum, built some of the world's largest schooners between...
$30.00
FOLK ART IN MAINE: UNCOMMON TREASURES 1750-1925
This volume serves as an introduction for the novice, a treasure for the collector,and as a companion piece to the Maine Folk...
$35.00
ISLANDS OF THE MID-MAINE COAST, PEMAQUID POINT TO THE KENNEBEC RIVER By Charles B. and Carol McLane
By Charles B. McLane and Carol McLane. Using primary sources, old tax assessments, court records and early maps to tell the...
$35.00
ISLANDS OF THE MID-MAINE COAST: PENOBSCOT BAY By Charles B. and Carol McLane
By Charles B. McLane and Carol McLane. Through primary sources, old tax assessments, court records and early maps and...
$35.00
LETTERS FROM THE SEA, 1882-1901, JOANNA AND LINCOLN COLCORD'S SEAFARING CHILDHOOD By Parker Bishop Albee Jr.
By Parker Bishop Albee, Jr. The Colcord children spent most of their youth on their father's ships, and the family's richly...
$35.00