An updated guide to one of the East Coast's most popular hiking venues. "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 encompassing Baxter State Park, the Rangeley Lakes, Aroostook County, and much more. Chunn leads hikers up Maine's highest and most scenic peaks―Mounts Katahdin, Kineo, Traveler, and Doubletop―from gentle grades to vertiginious scrambling along the Knife's Edge. She leads you to waterfalls, remote ponds, lookout towers, swimming ho... [Read More]
For more than half a century, the Appalachian Mountain Club's Maine Mountain Guide has been hikers' and backpackers' quintessential resource for trails in Maine's spectacular mountains. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, featuring 175 new trails, 50 new mountains, and 13 additional in-text maps, capturing Maine's booming trail building and expansion during the past five years. Fresh coverage of classics such as Baxter State Park and Acadia National Park now sits alongside more detailed descriptions of regions including the 100-Mile Wilderness and Moosehead Lake, Downeast... [Read More]
Now in its third edition, Quiet Water Maine continues to be a timeless paddling companion to the still waters of Maine. Discover more than 100 spectacular ponds, lakes, and rivers in Maine ideally suited for canoing and kayaking. This revised edition of AMC's bestselling guide highlights various destinations throughout Maine with information on driving directions, parking, launch information, and a detailed tour description of time, distance, and difficulty. The guide also includes notes on the flora and fauna you will see along the way. Suitable for both beginner and experienced paddlers alik... [Read More]
Nine richly varied, often funny, always moving stories that reveal the complex workings of the human heart. Bill Roorbach conjures vivid characters whose layered interior worlds feel at once familiar and extraordinary. He first made his mark as the winner of an O. Henry Prize for the title story of Big Bend, his first collection, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award. His new collection, The Girl of the Lake, captures a virtuoso in his prime. Roorbach’s characters are unforgettable: among them an adventurous boy who learns what courage really is when an aging nobleman recounts ... [Read More]
The 50 hikes that registered Maine guide Cloe Chunn has chosen for this updated edition of her popular guidebook range in length from 2 hours to 5 days--and lead to waterfalls, remote ponds, lookout towers, swimming holes, and incomparable vistas. Along with hiking directions and map, Chunn also provides information on the geology, wildlife, and history of each trail--and she emphasizes family hiking. 26 photos. 51 maps.
Now completely revised and updated, this edition describes more than eighty spectacular paddling trips in Maine.
"A runaway winner! It is 5 am and I just finished reading! THE BEST IS YET TO COME has exceeded all my expectations! I had tears in my eyes while reading. I truly felt the love, the sense of community, and the strength of these characters." 5 stars from KarinaBest friends. High school sweethearts. Passionate lovers. Once upon a time, Sarah Bartow and Calvin Vaughn were everything to each other. Until big dreams—and an even bigger tragedy—tore them apart. Ten years after good-bye, they're finally together again at Summer Lake in the Adirondacks...and the sparks between them are hotter than... [Read More]
Sabbathday Lake, one of the 19 original Shaker sites in America, was founded in 1794. While all the other sites are now historical re-creations, this hamlet in Maine continues as the vital center of the faith in the 21st century. The photographer Stephen G. Williams has been visiting these Shakers since the early 1970s, drawing spiritual strength from their habits of work and prayer, and artistic inspiration from their quest for harmony, economy, and perfection. "This book," says Williams, "is an endeavor to convey in photographic form my idea of Shakerism: simplicity, beauty, and grace." In i... [Read More]
* The official Northern Forest Canoe Trail maps, produced by the organization that conceived, coordinated and developed it* NFCT flows through New York, Vermont, Quebec, New Hampshire, and Maine* Maps include put-in points, portages, campsites, local contact information, and permit guidelines * Water- and tear-resistent color contour maps offer detailed route descriptions Moosehead/Penobscot Region: Maine, Moosehead Lake to Umbazooksus Stream (Trail section 11) Moosehead Lake is largest lake in Maine-Thoreau traveled this section of the NFCT and wrote of his trip in The Maine Woods. Here the ... [Read More]
The Rangeley Lakes were the crucible of Maine's nineteenth-century sporting culture, and the Rangeley boat evolved out of this distinctive time and place. As essential to Rangeley as sporting camps, fishing guides, and brook trout, the namesake boat remains a true icon.The Rangeley and Its Region tells how entwined the boat, people, lakes, town, and economy became over a century. This engaging story includes native voices and historical photographs, and touches on sportfishing, rod-building, fly-tying, boatbuilding, guiding, and the summer culture of a remote and treasured town. B&W photograph... [Read More]
* The official Northern Forest Canoe Trail maps, produced by the organization that conceived, coordinated and developed it* NFCT flows through New York, Vermont, Quebec, New Hampshire, and Maine* Maps include put-in points, portages, campsites, local contact information, and permit guidelines * Water- and tear-resistent color contour maps offer detailed route descriptions Rangeley Lakes Region: Maine, Umbagog Lake to Rangeley Lake (Trail section 8): This playground of large connected lakes (Rangeley, Mooselookmeguntic, the Richardsons and Umbagog) has been popular for fishing since mid-1800s, ... [Read More]
* The official Northern Forest Canoe Trail maps, produced by the organization that conceived, coordinated and developed it* NFCT flows through New York, Vermont, Quebec, New Hampshire, and Maine* Maps include put-in points, portages, campsites, local contact information, and permit guidelines * Water- and tear-resistent color contour maps offer detailed route descriptions NFCT Flagstaff Lake Region: Maine, Rangeley Lake to Spencer Stream (Trail section 9)This section of the trail follows the Dead River, with the shallow waters of Flagstaff Lake buldging out from the middle and covering three f... [Read More]
The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America–majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way–and a couple of bears. Already a classic, A Walk in the Woods will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and re... [Read More]
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Native canoe routes of Maine, with translations of place names, are described in the context of Northeastern geological development and Indian prehistoric culture in the use of birch bark canoes on rivers, lakes, carries, and coastal routes, according to the archaeological and historical record, informed by accounts of early explorers. Foreword: James Francis, Penobscot Tribal Historian; Introduction: Prof. David Sanger.
This revised edition of AMC's bestselling guide highlights various destinations throughout Maine with information on driving directions, parking, launch information, and a detailed tour description of time, distance, and difficulty. Suitable for both beginner and
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