Author(s): Trudy Nicholson,Paul Mirocha,Sara St. Antoine
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 288
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Language: English
Date Published: 2004-06-01
Dimensions: 152.4 x 226.06 x 22.86mm
Publication City/Country: Minneapolis, United States
Edition: First Trade Paper Edition
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Gathering the stories of people whose lives have adapted to the unique features of the North Atlantic coast, the book moves from Wampanoag Indians to eighteenth-century seafarers to contemporary teens. Readers are invited to feel the throb and pulse of the surf as Helen Keller felt it, track an otter through a southern New Hampshire winter, harvest blueberries as the Micmac Indians once did, and join a young boy as he tries to save a lobster from the cooking pot. The lives of fishermen and women, of sailors lost in the fog, of a whale trapped in a pond in Newfoundland--all become richer and more memorable when woven into the fabric of literature. The book is divided, as are all books in the series, into four sections: Adventures, Great Places, Reapers and Sowers, and Wild Lives. The treasure trove of stories, poems, journal entries, and essays about the region is followed by a brief natural history, including a list of areas to visit to experience the wilder side of the North Atlantic Coast region.