{"title":"Maine Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"one-mans-meat","title":"One Man's Meat","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book has been in print for over 70 years, so perhaps it's worth your while. \u003cbr\u003eRoger Angell of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and stepson of EB White writes:\u003cbr\u003e\"...the book has always had the heft, the light usefulness, of a bushel basket, carrying a raking of daily or seasonal notions, and, on the next short trip, the heavier burden of and idea. (The image owes much to White himself, whose remembered easy, unstriding walk across a pasture or down the shore road of his Maine farm remains unique, as does his touch with the homely utensils of prose.) Strewn with errands and asterisks, farming tips and changes of weather, notes on animals and neighbors and statesmen, \u003ci\u003eOne Man's Meat\u003c\/i\u003e is too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal. Perhaps it's a prime: a countryman's lessons that convey, at each reading, a sense of early morning clarity and possibility.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- \u003cP\u003eA piece written in 1938 is most interesting to anyone who has recently visited New York's meat-packing district, and experienced the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thehighline.org\"\u003e\"High Line\"\u003c\/a\u003e. In his chapter \"Progress and Change\" EB writes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy friends in the city tell me that the Sixth Avenue El is coming down, but that's a hard thing for anyone to believe who once lived in its fleeting and audible shadow. The El was the most distinguished and outstanding vein on the town's neck, a varicosity tempting to the modern surgeon. One wonders whether New York can survive this sort of beauty operation, performed in the name of civic splendor and rapid transit.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWow. Click on the \"High Line\" above and and see what has become of the 6th Street Elevated Train tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby E.B. White\u003cbr\u003e279 pp., softcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Globe Pequot\/DEB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":16904356659290,"sku":"300-596","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/4098\/7482\/products\/One_Mans_Meat_300596P_200.jpg?v=1563646673"},{"product_id":"e-b-white-on-dogs-paperback","title":"E. B. White on Dogs (paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe legion of E.B. White devotees will be pleased with this \"best of\" compilation by Martha White, \"Andy's\" grand-daughter, and bride of Rockport Marine's Taylor Allen. Martha is also the sister of Brooklin Boatyard's Steve White. And, \u003ci\u003eMartha\u003c\/i\u003e (the boat) buillt by Joel (EB's son...) has been sailed by WoodenBoat School Director Rich Hilsinger for many, many years. Hence, aside from the beautiful writing, our connection\/interest. Small-town living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartha is manager of the EB White literary estate. The book features canine-related essays, poems, and letters. And it includes previously unpublished photographs from the E. B. White Estate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by Martha White\u003cbr\u003e178 pp, photographs, Softcover\u003cbr\u003emeasures 5.5 x 8.5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eReview\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ci\u003eE.B. White, dog enthusiast and keen observer, liked to opine about what made his many dogs do what they did. Predateing the blogosphere by nearly a century, White's personable storytelling retains its freshness and immediacy and will charm and enlighten a new generation of dog-lovers. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Claudia Kawczynska, Editor in Chief, \u003ci\u003eThe Bark\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Globe Pequot\/DEB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":16904382316634,"sku":"300-828P","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/4098\/7482\/products\/e-b-white-on-dogs-300-828-400p.jpg?v=1563985086"},{"product_id":"focused-on-the-coast","title":"Focused on the Coast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 170, 255);\"\u003eOn SALE!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSubtitled \"The Photographic Work of Neal Parent\", this could also be subtitled \"A Collection of 25 Years Work\" as this book is Neal's favorite images taken over the last quarter century. You'll see boats, nature, land and seascapes. 135 images, carefully reproduced double-black duotones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA professional photographer, Neal started his career as a photojournalist for a small mid-coast Maine newspaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShooting exclusively in the 35mm format enables him to photograph with spontaneity. Using natural light, he works without filters and does all his own printing. Hand processing of each photograph in trays ensures complete control of each image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis photos have appeared in several magazines, including National Fisherman, Pacific Fisherman, and Downeast. In addition, his images were selected to appear in Nathalie Ward's \"Stellwagen Bank\", \"Adventure\" by Joseph E. Garland with Captain Jim Sharp, and \"From Cape Cod to the Bay of Fundy\", edited by Philip W. Conkling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeal exhibits his work in several galleries and at juried fine art shows from Maine to Florida and has won countless awards and ribbons from some of the most prestigious art shows on the East Coast. His images hang in private and corporate collections, and he now shares a gallery in Belfast Maine, with his talented daughter--she paints landscapes in pastels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby Neal Parent\u003cbr\u003e136 pp., hardcover \u003cbr\u003e12 x 11\"\u003cbr\u003eISBN# 0-937822-74-4\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoodenBoat Publications Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":16904414134362,"sku":"325-124","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/4098\/7482\/products\/Focused.jpg?v=1565098016"},{"product_id":"windjammers-downeast","title":"Windjammers Downeast","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pictorial tribute to the boats of Penobscot Bay, which make their living carrying sight seers and eco-tourists along the coast of Maine. The images in this book are termed \"photographic impressions\"-paintings created from photos and software, using a stylus as the paintbrush, resulting in a unique form of artwork. In addition to the beautiful images of these boats-fourteen schooners and a ketch-Fred provides a bit of background on each of the craft. Bonus: five Maine Lighthouses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmerican Eagle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAngelique\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrace Bailey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeritage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIssac H. Evans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJ.\u0026amp; E. Riggin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLewis R. French\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMary Day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMercantile\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMistress\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNathaniel Bowditch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStephen Taber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummertime\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTimberwind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVictory Chimes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRockland Breakwater Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePortland Head Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePemaquid Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCape Neddick Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobinson Point Light\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003cbr\u003eFrederick LeBlanc has worked as a professional photojournalist since the late 1970s. His commercial and editorial images have appeared regularly in regional and national publications, and his life-long passion for classic wooden sailing vessels has led him to document these beautiful windjammers on the coast of Maine. A lifelong New Englander, Fred lives is South Hadley, Massachusetts. For more of his work, please visit www.frederickleblanc.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e40 pp., softcover\u003cbr\u003e7x10 horizontal format\u003cbr\u003eISBN # 978-0-937822-00-6\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"WoodenBoat Publications Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":16904421769306,"sku":"325-145","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/4098\/7482\/products\/WindjammersDowneast.jpg?v=1565103208"},{"product_id":"e-b-white-on-democracy","title":"On Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow in paperback.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFolks familiar with WoodenBoat will realize the connection with EB White. So you'll understand that while this book isn't boaty, it \u003cem\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e EB White. And it's brilliant. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by historian and former editor of \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, Jon Meacham, who writes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Few things are as perishable as prose written for magazines (sermons come close as do the great majority of political speechs), but White, arguably the finest occasional essayist of the twentieth century, endures because he wrote plainly and honestly about he things that matter the most, from life on his farm in Maine to the lives of nations and of peoples.  Known popularly more for his books for children (\u003cem\u003eCharlotte's Web\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStuart Little\u003c\/em\u003e) than his corpus of essays, White is that rarest of figures, a writer whose ordinary run of work is so extraordinary that it repays our attention decades after his death.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is, as with \u003cem\u003e\u003ca title=\"One Man's Meat\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodenboatstore.sbs\/products\/one-mans-meat?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=033457edc\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eOne Man's Meat\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of EB White essays, letters, and poems. You may be struck by just how timeless are his observations. And if you're familiar with his other works, you may not be surprised at all. But you will be comforted with the always concise perspective. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.\" --EB White, \u003cem\u003eOn Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"... This doesn't make an America Firster a Facist. It simply makes him, in our opinion, a man who hasn't grown into his pants yet.\" --\u003cem\u003eFrom August 7, 1943, in a piece titled Definition of Facism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a book that will likely be picked up and tapped into over the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  by EB White, edited by Martha White\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   203 pp., softcover, 5-1\/2\" x 8\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEB White (1889-1985) lived in New York City, and Brooklin, Maine. Contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, and author of more than 20 books, including \u003ca title=\"boxed set\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodenboatstore.sbs\/collections\/childrens-books\/products\/e-b-white-box-set-charlottes-web-stuart-little-the-trumpet-of-the-swan\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCharlotte's Web\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Trumpet and the Swan\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca title=\"boxed set\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodenboatstore.sbs\/collections\/childrens-books\/products\/e-b-white-box-set-charlottes-web-stuart-little-the-trumpet-of-the-swan\"\u003eStuart Little\u003c\/a\u003e,  \u003c\/em\u003eand of course, \u003cem\u003eElements of Style\u003c\/em\u003e (Strunk \u0026amp; White). His son was Joel White, naval architect and designer of the Haven 12-1\/2, Shellback Dinghy, Nutshell Pram, the original W-Class, and so many more. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoel built his dad a boat, a \u003ca title=\"Martha\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodenboatstore.sbs\/collections\/cruising-boat-plans\/products\/crocker-yawl-20-sallee-rover\"\u003eCrocker sloop\u003c\/a\u003e which is one of the handsome boats on our WoodenBoat waterfront, as it's now in the hands of School director (emeritus) Rich Hilsinger. The boat's name? Martha. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNYT covered \u003ca title=\"EB White service\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1985\/10\/27\/us\/friends-family-and-readers-celebrate-life-of-eb-white.html\"\u003ethe eulogy in 1985\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42119642317018,"sku":"300-915P","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/4098\/7482\/products\/On_democracy_7564dba7-3cad-45d6-b838-c32b05e332e5.jpg?v=1637954772"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.woodenboatstore.sbs\/collections\/maine-books.oembed","provider":"The WoodenBoat Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}