The Maine Reader: The Down East Experience 1614 to Present

By Charles Shain and Samuella Shain

Book Overview

This book encompasses 400 years of paintings, photographs, poetry and prose from Maine. From the impressions of the first European explorers to the earthy backwoods wit of Carolyn Chute, this book provides the experiences of a variety of visitors and inhabitants of the area. The editors of this book reveal the journals of a foot soldier marching with Benedict Arnold, the diaries of a sea captain's wife and the writing of Sarah Orne Jewett, Rockwell Kent, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Marsden Hartley.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395576504
• ISBN13: 9780395576502
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"