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Author: John Wilmerding
Publisher: Olana Collection
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780801451034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaine provided sensational sunsets, robust waves crashing on rocky shores, and an abundance of wilderness well suited to Frederic Church's artistic vision. Maine Sublime brings together all of the Maine artwork in the Olana collection.
Author: James Maynard
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2018-05-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 082635890X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines the theoretical underpinnings of Robert Duncan’s poetry and poetics. The author’s overriding concern is Duncan’s understanding of excess in relation to poetry and the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, William James, and John Dewey.
Author: Katy Kelleher
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2017-08-29
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1616896817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmid the sublime beauty of Maine—its primordial forests, remote lakes, rugged mountains, and craggy coastline blooms a handmade culture fed by heritage, self-sufficiency, and collaboration. Handcrafted Maine: Art, Life, Harvest & Home features lively profiles of more than twenty artists, artisans, and craftspeople—weavers and potters, a painter, an architect, a boatbuilder, a leatherworker, bakers, lobster-men, and more—at work in the woods, towns, and cities of Maine, celebrating the triumphs and challenges of entrepreneurship and independence. Including more than 225 inspiring color photographs and intimate narrative portraits, Handcrafted Maine provides a window into the inner lives of creatives and brings to life the powerful environment and spirited character that nurture the unbridled ingenuity and common-sense approach to craft and life found Down East.
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Published: 2008-06
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBackpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 942
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christian P. Potholm
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011-12-16
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 073917004X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaine: An Annotated Bibliography is a look at the Maine Experience from its historical, political, social, and literary perspectives. It provides readers an overview of over four hundred books written about Maine, including the perspective which they provide. Topics such as "The Wild, Wild East," "Ethnicity Matters," "Women in Maine," and "Maine in the Civil War" stimulate the imagination and provide the most comprehensive synopsis of writing about Maine available.
Author: Raymond Cocks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521524964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA demonstration of the contemporary context and significance of Maine's approach to the law.
Author: United States. Post Office Department
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 858
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Little
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: 2013-01-25
Total Pages: 759
ISBN-13: 1608931935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKatahdin has been called Maine’s greatest treasure. In addition to the outdoor and sporting tradition that surrounds it, there is a distinct tradition of art. For more than a hundred years, some of the most prominent landscape painters—Marsden Hartley, Frederic Church, John Marin, and many others—have portrayed Katahdin. Art of Katahdin is the first book to catalog this tradition. Filled with hundreds of color artworks this books traces the artists who have worked at Katahdin, from the earliest renderings and maps of the area to contemporary views. The text follows some of the history of the region, as well as the artists’ ties to the mountain.
Author: Michael D. Burke
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-12-15
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1527563820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in Maine’s Place in the Environmental Imagination address – from a variety of perspectives – how Maine’s unique identity among the states of the United States has been formed, and what that identity is: A place that is still imagined by others primarily through its environmental associations, its “nature” and landscape, rather than through its social arrangements and human history. The collection attempts a foundational study, not of a regional literature, but of a state literature. In doing so, it makes the case that Maine was constructed imaginatively and environmentally through its literature, and that this image is the one that endures even now. The essays suggest how this identity was formed, by discussing writings ranging from the recently recovered work of Joseph Nicolar, a member of the Penobscot Nation in the late 19th century, to the contemporary Maine author Carolyn Chute; from Thoreau’s canonical essay, “Ktaadn,” to the modernist E.B. White, whose works have an under-appreciated environmental project. Contributors include scholars Nathaniel Lewis, Annette Kolodny, Linda Kornasky, Daniel Malachuk, Kent Ryden, and Lynn Wake
