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In this guidebook, wide-roaming author John Gibson takes travelers to all the Maine islands that are accessible by public ferry. In addition to providing the expected facts about how to get there and what you'll find when you arrive, John touches on the spirit of the Maine islands — what it is that attracts us. Besides helpful advice on being a prepared traveler — everything from planning around limited ferry schedules and packing enough warm clothing to knowing when not to bring the dog — he tells you some island history, lore, and legends to help you truly experience the islands.
In this meditation on religion and science, Lightman explores the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty, and the modern scientific discoveries that demonstrate the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world. As a physicist, he has always held a scientific view of the world. But one summer evening, while looking at the stars from a small boat at sea he was overcome by the sensation that he was merging with a grand and eternal unity, a hint of something absolute and immaterial. This is his exploration of these seemingly contradictory impulses, and the journey along the different paths of religion and science that become part of his quest. -- adapted from publisher info.
Stories, history, character sketches of people and events on Isle au Haut, an island off the coast of Maine
Island Institute founder Philip Conkling writes about Maine island residents and wildlife from prehistoric times to the present. He examines the geology and climate of the islands, as well as the changing culture of current island communities.
A couple set out on a bold and vigorous quest for independence and a more essential way of life on a Maine island
In 1991, Crash Barry moved to Maine's most remote inhabited island to work as a sternman aboard a lobster boat. On Matinicus, twenty miles out to sea, population fifty, the ferry visited nine times a year and airplanes only landed when there was no fog, rain, snow, sleet or darkness. Tough Island is a gritty memoir and guided tour of a unique society inhabited by resourceful individuals and scoundrels.Stories of danger and drugs, sex and violence, death and sorrow, all unfold in a landscape of breathtaking beauty.
When artist Tom Curry first moved to Maine, his house overlooked a small, uninhabited island in Eggemoggin Reach. One day, while rowing across to the island, his boyhood fear of water came crashing in on him. So he decided to explore his fear head-on, and began painting the island “as a way to delve into my own darkness and seek a way back to the surface.” That series of paintings, capturing the island in all lights, weathers, and moods, forms the basis of this book. But the whole is much more than the sum of its parts. These paintings represent an ongoing narrative: “island as escape and entrapment, island as longing and memory, island as sanctuary, island as self in a sea of turmoil.” The paintings are accompanied by essays by Terry Tempest Williams, exploring Curry’s spirit of place, and Carl Little, establishing Curry’s art within the field of landscape painting.
When he was a young man finding his way in the world, award-winning photographer Peter Ralston was introduced to the beautiful and austere coast of Maine by his friends Andrew and Betsy Wyeth. It was an introduction that was to change his life forever. In Maine's coastal communities, and especially on its islands, Ralston found what every artist is looking for: a place to spend a creative lifetime, a subject that embodies every element of human experience. Includes an afterword by Betsy and Andrew Wyeth. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
A compendium of four years of Island Naturalist columns, published originally in the weekly newspaper Island Ad-Vantages, Stonington, Maine.