Geographic Orientation/Maine
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Angel of Bataan: The Life of a World War II Army Nurse in the War Zone and at Home
$26.83 Add to cartAlice Zwicker was the only service woman from Maine to be a prisoner of the enemy in either of the two World Wars. But there is more to the story than that. Across the nation, wherever one of the seve… [more below]
- Author: Macdougall, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: April 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1608933741
- Language: English
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Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine
$26.95 Add to cartTwelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, va… [more below]
- Author: Bourque, Bruce J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803262310
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Maine
$23.99 Add to cartDiscover four hundred years of Maine’s history through the tales of its unique residents.
Maine history would be bare but for the contributions of hardy and impassioned individuals whose lives make up
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Gratwick, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1596298154
- Language: English
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Chowders, Soups, and Stews
$7.95 Add to cartThe best recipes from Maine’s acclaimed food writer, these are mouth-watering renditions of classics like clam chowder, lobster stew as well as broccoli chowder and crabmeat stew. Simple and simply de… [more below]
- Author: Standish, Marjorie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0892724242
- Language: English
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The Best Bike Paths of New England: Safe, Scenic, and Traffic-Free Bicycling
$15.00 Add to cartIn The Best Bike Paths of the New England, Wendy Williams has done you the favor of finding paved bike paths, free of cars, red lights, and exhaust fumes.
Organized by state, The Best Bike Paths of Ne- Author: Williams, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 04 1996
- ISBN10: 0684813998
- Language: English
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Take Heart: Poems from Maine the Complete Collection
$24.95 Add to cartIt is commonplace that poetry is the literary form that best expresses our deepest feelings. Those who seldom read poetry regularly turn to it for weddings, funerals, and other milestones. Former Main
- Author: McNair, Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1684750652
- Language: English
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Canoe Indians of Down East Maine
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1604, when Frenchmen landed on Saint Croix Island, they were far from the first people to walk along its shores.
For thousands of years, Etchemins–whose descendants were members of the Wabanaki Con
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Haviland, William a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1609496655
- Language: English
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Standard Baking Co. Pastries
$32.95 Add to cartStandard Baking Co. is Maine’s most well-known bakery. Located directly across from Portland’s harbor, the bakery is a daily hub for hundreds of people. From almond croissants to butter cookies to a p… [more below]
- Author: Pray, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1608931846
- Language: English
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Explorer’s Guide 50 Hikes in the Maine Mountains: Day Hikes and Overnights from the Rangeley Lakes to Baxter State Park
$22.99 Add to cart“After more than two decades of hiking,” writes Cloe Chunn, “I am even more in love with this place.” “This place” is northern Maine, a magnificent and largely unspoiled stretch of landscape encompass… [more below]
- Series: Explorer’s 50 Hikes #0
- Author: Chunn, Cloe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0881504998
- Language: English
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How Maine Changed the World
$30.95 Add to cartCelebrating Mainers’ Amazing Ingenuity
As Down East Books celebrates 50 years of great book publishing, it seems appropriate to reflect upon
the contributions Maine has made that have had significant cu… [more below]- Author: Griffin, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 20 2017
- ISBN10: 1608936317
- Language: English
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Wildfire Loose: The Week Maine Burned
$17.95 Add to cartIn October 1947, Maine experienced the worst fire disaster in its history. Wildfire Loose describes how the fires started and spread so quickly through rural villages, down Millionaire’s Row in Bar Ha… [more below]
- Author: Butler, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 17 2014
- ISBN10: 1608932966
- Language: English
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Keep Cooking–the Maine Way
$18.95 Add to cartMaine Sunday Times columnist Marjorie Standish’s readers clamored for a second cookbook, after the success of Cooking Down East. Here are more of her readers’ favorites.
- Author: Standish, Marjorie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 892723912
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Maine
$31.99 Add to cartThe history of the Pine Tree State would be bare but for the contributions of hardy and impassioned individuals–generals, governors, settlers and activists whose lives of leadership make up the story… [more below]
- Author: Gratwick, Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1540220788
- Language: English
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The Maine Poets
$17.95 Add to cartIn The Maine Poets, editor Wesley McNair has selected work by poets of the state from Longfellow to the present. Chosen for their appeal to the general reader, these poems honor the full vision and di… [more below]
- Author: McNair, Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 089272708X
- Language: English
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Letters from Maine: Poems
$15.99 Add to cartThe book celebrates that time, marks its passing, and opens up the poetic vision it left behind. The poems speak of the permanence of the memory of love and of the flowering it brings. They also draw … [more below]
- Author: Sarton, May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: April 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0393317161
- Language: English
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Lost Bar Harbor
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue the simple life on a grand scale. Eighty-six … [more below]
- Author: Helfrich, G. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1608936023
- Language: English
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Maine Lingo: A Wicked-Good Guide to Yankee Vernacular
$16.95 Add to cartMaine Lingo was first compiled in 1975, when TV, radio, and other leveling media had begun to seriously erode regional speech distinctions, and this dictionary will furnish anyone interested in Maine … [more below]
- Author: Gould, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: November 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1608935663
- Language: English
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Deer Diaries
$16.95 Add to cartJohn Ford, retired Maine game warden, returns with book 3 of tales from his long career as a game warden in Maine. Each of them are filled with actual events and experiences, written as short stories,… [more below]
- Author: Ford, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1943424063
- Language: English
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Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign
$20.99 Add to cartFought amid rocks and trees, in thick blinding smoke, and under exceedingly stressful conditions, the battle for the southern slope of Little Round Top on July 2, 1863 stands among the most famous and… [more below]
- Author: Desjardin, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0195382315
- Language: English
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Native Plants for Your Maine Garden
$26.95 Add to cartUse native plants to beautifully transform your Maine garden in the most environmentally friendly way
Savvy gardeners include native plants in their landscaping because they know these species are hard
- Author: Heffernan, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1684750938
- Language: English
