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Maine Harbors BOOK REVIEWS Alphabetically by Title - by Carol Standish  |
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| 100 Weird Ways to Catch Fish | |||||
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John Waldman | ||||
| Adventure on the High Sea - A Family’s Sailing Voyage | |||||
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Susan Barry Blair > Author Profile... | ||||
| A Coastal Companion A Year in the Gulf of Maine | |||||
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Catherine Schmitt, illustrated by Kimberleigh Martul-March and Margaret Campbell | ||||
| A Fat Virgin Death Romance and Murder in the British Virgin Islands | |||||
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J. Tracksler | ||||
| A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife | |||||
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Noble S. Proctor and Patrick J. Lynch | ||||
| Afloat and Ashore | |||||
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Roger F. Duncan | ||||
| Ahab's Wife or, The Star Gazer | |||||
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Sena Jeter Naslund | ||||
| A Hard Water World - Ice Fishing and Why We Do It | |||||
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photographs by Layne Kennedy, essays by Greg Breining | ||||
| All in the Same Boat | |||||
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Tom Neale | ||||
| All This and Sailing, Too | |||||
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Olin J. Stephens II | ||||
| A Mile Down - The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea | |||||
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David Vann | ||||
| An Eye for the Coast | |||||
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photographs of Eric Hudson | ||||
| A Passion for Beach Glass | |||||
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C.S. Lambert, photographs by Amy Wilton | ||||
| A Pirate of Exquisite Mind | |||||
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Diana and Michael Preston | ||||
| A Sea In Flames | |||||
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Carl Safina | ||||
| A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast | |||||
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James L. Bildner > Author Profile... | ||||
| The Art of Maine in Winter | |||||
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Arnold Skolnick, editor with Carl Little, commentator | ||||
| The Art of Monhegan Island | |||||
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art writer, Carl Little and artist, designer Arnold Skolnick | ||||
| At Home in Maine - Houses Designed to Fit the Land | |||||
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architect Christopher Glass and architectural photographer Brian Vanden Brink | ||||
| Beach Stories by the Sand and Sea | |||||
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Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker, editors | ||||
| Bear of the Sea | |||||
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Joseph E. Garland | ||||
| Bert and I and other stories from Down East | |||||
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Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan | ||||
| Beyond the Outer Shores The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts | |||||
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Eric Enno Tamm | ||||
| Blue Horizons Dispatches from Distant Seas | |||||
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Beth A. Leonard | ||||
| Boat Green 50 Steps Boaters Can Take to Save Our Waters | |||||
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Clyde W. Ford | ||||
| Bookmarks Magazine 101 Crackerjack Sea Books | |||||
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Dean King and others | ||||
| The Boy, Me and the Cat Cruise of the Mascot, 1912-1913 | |||||
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Henry M. Plummer | ||||
| Call of the Ancient Mariner Reese Palley's Guide to a Long Sailing Life | |||||
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Reese Palley | ||||
| The Camera’s Coast Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England | |||||
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W.H. Bunting, Introduction by John R. Stilgoe | ||||
| Catboat Summers | |||||
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John E. Conway > Author Profile... | ||||
| Celia Thaxter Selected Writings | |||||
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compiled by Julia Older | ||||
| Changing Course | |||||
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Debra Ann Cantrell | ||||
| The Coast of Maine | |||||
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Carl Heilman II | ||||
| Cod - A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World | |||||
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Mark Kurlansky | ||||
| Cold Adventures in the World's Frozen Places | |||||
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Bill Streever | ||||
| Cold Oceans - Adventures in Kayak, Rowboat and Dogsled | |||||
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Jon Turk | ||||
| The Continental Risque | |||||
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James L. Nelson | ||||
| Cork Boat | |||||
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John Pollack | ||||
| Creative Coastal Cooking | |||||
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Terry Ward Libby | ||||
| The Cruiser’s Handbook of Fishing | |||||
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Scott Bannerot and Wendy Bannerot | ||||
| Cruising At Last | |||||
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Elliott Merrick | ||||
| Cruising Guide to Maine | |||||
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Don Johnson | ||||
| Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast | |||||
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Taft, Taft and Rindlaub | ||||
| Cruising Guide to the New England Coast - 11th ed. | |||||
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Duncan, Ware and Fenn | ||||
| Cruising Guide to the New England Coast - 12th ed. | |||||
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Robt C. & Roger S. Duncan, W. Wallace & Paul W. Fenn | ||||
| Cruising Rules | |||||
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Roland Sawyer Barth | ||||
| Damaged Goods - A Jack McMorrow Mystery | |||||
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Gerry Boyle | ||||
| The Dance of the Flying Gurnards - America’s Coastal Curiosities and Beachside Wonders | |||||
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John Waldman | ||||
| Daring the Sea | |||||
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David Shaw | ||||
| Dark Noon | |||||
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Tom Clavin | ||||
| The Day Before Winter | |||||
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Elisabeth Ogilvie | ||||
| A Day's Work - A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs | |||||
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compiled by W. H. Bunting | ||||
| The Deep Sea Search for Amelia Earhart | |||||
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David W. Jourdan > Author Interview... | ||||
| The Dead of Winter | |||||
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David Crossman | ||||
| Does a Lobsterman Wear Pants? | |||||
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Barbara Delinsky | ||||
| A Doryman’s Day | |||||
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Captain R. Barry Fisher | ||||
| Eastward | |||||
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Roger Duncan | ||||
| Endurance | |||||
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F. A. Worsley | ||||
| The Endurance - Shackleton's Incredible Voyage | |||||
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Alfred Lansing | ||||
| The Endurance - Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition | |||||
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Caroline Alexander | ||||
| English Passengers | |||||
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Matthew Kneale | ||||
| Fatal Forecast - An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea | |||||
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Michael J. Tougias | ||||
| Fair Wind and Plenty of It | |||||
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Rigel Crockett | ||||
| Feasts Afloat | |||||
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Jennifer Trainer Thompson and Elizabeth Wheeler | ||||
| Ferry Ride | |||||
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Poems Between Carol Cartier and Sarah Goodman | ||||
| Field Notes from a Catastrophe - Man, Nature and Climate Change | |||||
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Elizabeth Kolbert | ||||
| Fisherman’s Bend | |||||
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Linda Greenlaw | ||||
| Fluke | |||||
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Christopher Moore | ||||
| Flying Cloud | |||||
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David W. Shaw | ||||
| Four Fish - The Future of the Last Wild Food | |||||
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Paul Greenberg | ||||
| Four Guys in a Boat - A Decade of Rum, Cigars, Poker and Lies | |||||
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Tom Watkins | ||||
| Four Short Blasts - The Gale of 1898 and the Loss of the Steamer Portland | |||||
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Peter Dow Bachelder and Mason Philip Smith | ||||
| The Frozen-Water Trade | |||||
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Gavin Weightman | ||||
| F/V Black Sheep | |||||
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Mark S. Williams > Author Profile... | ||||
| The Galley - How Things Work | |||||
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Donald Launer | ||||
| Getting Started in Sailboat Racing | |||||
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Adam Cort and Richard Stearns | ||||
| The Great Classic Yacht Revival | |||||
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Nic Compton | ||||
| Gone to the Sea An Anthology | |||||
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Herb McCormick | ||||
| The Hard Way Around The Passages of Joshua Slocum | |||||
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Geoffrey Wolff | ||||
| Hauling by Hand | |||||
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Dean Lawrence Lunt | ||||
| Hooked - Pirates, Poaching and the Perfect Fish | |||||
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G. Bruce Knecht | ||||
| Heartbeats in the Muck - A Dramatic Look at the History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor | |||||
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John Waldman | ||||
| Hostile Waters | |||||
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Peter Huchtausen, Igor Kurdin and R. Alan White | ||||
| Hot Showers! - Maine Coast Lodgings for Kayakers and Sailors, 2nd Edition | |||||
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Lee Bumsted | ||||
| How I Became a Pirate - Children, Reading level 4-8 | |||||
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Melinda Long, illustrated by David Shannon | ||||
| Hull Creek | |||||
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Jim Nichols | ||||
| The Hungry Ocean | |||||
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Linda Greenlaw | ||||
| Innocents at Sea (The Sailing Misadventures of two) | |||||
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James A. McCracken | ||||
| In Peril | |||||
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Skip Strong and Twain Braden | ||||
| In Praise of Sailing | |||||
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compiled by Welleran Polternees | ||||
| In the Path of the Storms - Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast | |||||
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Frye Gaillard, Sheila Hagler and Peggy Denniston | ||||
| The International Marine Book of Sailing | |||||
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Robby Robinson | ||||
| Iron Jaw - A Skipper Tells His Story | |||||
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Charles N. Bamforth, edited by Charles A. and Richard A. Bamforth | ||||
| The Island Queen | |||||
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Julia Older | ||||
| It’s Your Boat Too - A Woman's Guide to Greater Enjoyment on the Water | |||||
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Suzanne Geisemann | ||||
| John Paul Jones - Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy | |||||
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Evan Thomas | ||||
| Just a Sailor - A Navy Diver’s Story of Photography, Salvage and Combat | |||||
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Steven L. Waterman | ||||
| Kennebec - Cradle of Americans | |||||
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Robert P. Tristram Coffin | ||||
| The Last Fish Tale | |||||
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Mark Kurlansky | ||||
| Letters from Sea 1882~1901 | |||||
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Captain Lincoln Alden Colcord and family explanatory narrative by Parker Bishop Albee, Jr. | ||||
| Lifesavers of the South Shore - A History of Rescue and Loss | |||||
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John Galluzzo, forward by Ralph Shanks | ||||
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Lighthouses and Life Saving Along the Maine and New Hampshire Coast Lighthouses and Life Saving Along the Massachusetts Coast | |||||
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James Claflin | ||||
| The Lightkeepers' Menagerie - Stories of Animals at Lighthouses | |||||
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Elinor De Wire | ||||
| The Lobster Chronicles | |||||
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Linda Greenlaw | ||||
| The Lobster Coast - Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier | |||||
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Colin Woodard | ||||
| London Goes to Sea - Restoring and Sailing an Old Boat on a Budget | |||||
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Peter Baumgartner | ||||
| LNG: A Level-Headed Look at the Liquefied Natural Gas Controversy | |||||
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Virginia L. Thorndike | ||||
| Maine - A View from Above | |||||
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Charles Feil | ||||
| Maine - Cruising the Coast by Car | |||||
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Arthur B. Layton, Jr. | ||||
| Maine Birding Trail: The Official Guide to More Than 260 Accessible Sites | |||||
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Bob Duchesne | ||||
| Maine Curiosities - Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff | |||||
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Tim Sample and Steve Bither | ||||
| Maine Island Trail 2005 Stewardship and Guidebook | |||||
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Maine Island Trail Association | ||||
| Maine Lobsterboats - Builders and Lobstermen Speak of Their Craft | |||||
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Virginia Thorndike | ||||
| Maine Sail - An Artist’s Journal of a Cruise Down East | |||||
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Margaret S. McCrea | ||||
| Maine Street - Faces and Stories from a Small Town | |||||
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Patrisha McLean | ||||
| the Maine Summers Cookbook recipes for delicious sun-filled days | |||||
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Linda Greenlaw and Martha Greenlaw | ||||
| Managing the Waterway - An Enriched Cruising Guide for Intracoastal Waterway Travelers | |||||
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Mark and Diana Doyal | ||||
| Men and Whales | |||||
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Richard Ellis | ||||
| Moby-Duck - The True Story of 28,000 Bath Toys Lost at Sea | |||||
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Donovan Hohn | ||||
| A New England Fish Tale - Seafood Recipes and Observations of a Way of Life from a Fisherman's Wife | |||||
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Martha Watson Murphy | ||||
| The New Saturday Night at Moody’s Diner | |||||
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Tim Sample | ||||
| Night Train at Wiscasset Station | |||||
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photographs by Kosti Ruohomaa, text by Lew Dietz | ||||
| No Safe Harbor | |||||
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Joe Burnworth | ||||
| Not Without Hope | |||||
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Nick Schuyler and Jere Longman | ||||
| An Ocean to Cross | |||||
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Liz Fordred | ||||
| Ocean's End | |||||
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Colin Woodard | ||||
| One Pan Galley Gourmet | |||||
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Don Jacobson and John Roberts | ||||
| On Tugboats - Stories of Work and Life Aboard | |||||
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Virginia Thorndike | ||||
| One Island, One Ocean Ocean Watch and the Epic Journey Around the Americas | |||||
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Herb McCormick, photos by David Thoreson | ||||
| Our Point of View - Fourteen Years at a Maine Lighthouse | |||||
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Thomas Mark Szelog and Lee Ann Szelog | ||||
| Patrick O'Brian - A Life Revealed | |||||
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Dean King | ||||
| Phantoms Islands of the Atlantic - The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were | |||||
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Donald S. Johnson | ||||
| The Pirate Queen - The Story of Grace O'Malley | |||||
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Alan Gold | ||||
| Port City Shakedown - A Brandon Blake Crime Novel | |||||
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Gerry Boyle | ||||
| The Practical Encyclopedia of Boating | |||||
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John Vigor | ||||
| Ralph Stanley - Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder | |||||
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Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley | ||||
| Recipes from a Very Small Island | |||||
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Linda and Martha Greenlaw | ||||
| Red's Eats World's Best Lobster Shack | |||||
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Virginia Wright and Debbie Gagnon Cronk | ||||
| The Restless Sea series - Ocean Wildlife, Underwater Exploration, Dangerous Crossings, Savage Waters, Shifting Shores, Human Impact | |||||
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Carole G. Vogel | ||||
| Return to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kidd | |||||
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Barry Clifford | ||||
| Rhythm of the Tides - The Fisheries of Grand Manan | |||||
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Tim Peters | ||||
| Riptide | |||||
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs | ||||
| Rivers of Fortune - Where Maine Tides and Money Flowed | |||||
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Bill Caldwell | ||||
| Rowing to Latitude | |||||
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Jill Fredston | ||||
| The Rudder Treasury - A Companion for Lovers of Small Craft | |||||
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edited by Tom Davin | ||||
| Safe Harbor - Exploring Maine's Sheltered Bays, Coves and Anchorages | |||||
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William Hubbell | ||||
| Sailing Solo - The Legendary Sailors and Great Races | |||||
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Nic Compton | ||||
| The Sailor’s Illustrated Dictionary | |||||
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Thompson Lenfestey | ||||
| A Salty Piece of Land | |||||
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Jimmy Buffett | ||||
| Sarah’s Boat - Children, Reading level 8-11 | |||||
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Douglas Alvord | ||||
| Saving Maine - An Album of Conservation Success Stories | |||||
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Bill Silliker, Jr. | ||||
| Saving Sailing - The Story of Choices, Families, Time Commitments, and How We Can Create a Better Future | |||||
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Nicholas D. Hayes | ||||
| Sea Change - Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat | |||||
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Peter Nichols | ||||
| The Seacoast Reader | |||||
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edited by John A. Murray | ||||
| Seafaring Lore & Legend | |||||
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Peter D. Jeans | ||||
| Sea of Glory - The U.S Exploring Expedition 1838-1842 | |||||
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by Nathaniel Philbrick > Author Profile... | ||||
| Seashells in My Pocket - Children, Reading level 8-up | |||||
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Judith Hansen, illustrated by Donna Sabaka | ||||
| Seaworthy - A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea | |||||
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Linda Greenlaw | ||||
| Shackleton's Boat Journey | |||||
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F. A. Worsley | ||||
| The Ship and the Storm - Hurricane Mitch and the loss of the Fantome | |||||
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Jim Carrier | ||||
| Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex | |||||
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1821 narratives | ||||
| Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters of the Maine Coast | |||||
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Peter Dow Bachelder | ||||
| Sightings - A Maine Coast Odyssey | |||||
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Peter Ralston | ||||
| Sign of the Seahorse: A Tale of Greed and High Adventure in Two Acts - Children, Reading level 4-8 | |||||
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Graeme Base | ||||
| The Skiff, The Scow and the Footbridge | |||||
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Arch Davis > Author Profile... | ||||
| Slipknot | |||||
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Linda Greenlaw | ||||
| Snow Squall - The Last American Clipper Ship | |||||
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Nicholas Dean and Dave Switzer | ||||
| Something in the Water | |||||
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Peter Scott | ||||
| South | |||||
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Sir Ernest Shackleton | ||||
| South With Endurance - Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 | |||||
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The Photographs of Frank Hurley | ||||
| A Speck on the Sea - Epic Voyages in the Most Improbable Vessels | |||||
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William H. Longyard | ||||
| A Splendid Madness | |||||
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Thomas Froncek | ||||
| The Speedwell Voyage - A Tale of Piracy and Mutiny in the Eighteenth Century | |||||
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Kenneth Poolman | ||||
| Stories of the Sea | |||||
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Diana Secker Tesdell, editor | ||||
| Submerged - Adventures of America's Most Elite Underwater Archeology Team | |||||
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Daniel Lenihan | ||||
| Tahiti Bound | |||||
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Donald J. Langley, Sr. and Holly J. Blake | ||||
| Taking on the World - A Sailor’s Extraordinary Solo Race Around the Globe | |||||
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Ellen MacArthur | ||||
| Temple to the Wind - The Story of America’s Greatest Naval Architect and His Masterpiece, Reliance | |||||
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Christopher Pastore | ||||
| Ten Hours Until Dawn - The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do | |||||
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Michael J. Tougias | ||||
| Three Ways to Capsize a Boat - An Optimist Afloat | |||||
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Chris Stewart | ||||
| Titanic’s Last Secrets - The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler | |||||
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Brad Matson | ||||
| True North - Journeys into the Great Northern Ocean | |||||
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Myron Arms | ||||
| Tugging on a Heartstring - Life on a Family Tugboat on the Chesapeake Bay | |||||
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E. V. Lambert | ||||
| Under the Sea - Children, Reading level 9-12 | |||||
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Frank H. Talbot, editor | ||||
| A Unit of Water a Unit of Time - Joel White's Last Boat | |||||
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Douglas Whynott | ||||
| The Unnatural History of the Sea | |||||
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Callum Roberts | ||||
| The Urban Whale - North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads | |||||
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edited by Scott D. Kraus and Rosalind M. Rolland | ||||
| The Voyage | |||||
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Philip Caputo | ||||
| Voyage of the Liberdade | |||||
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Captain Joshua Slocum | ||||
| Voyage to the North Star | |||||
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Peter Nichols | ||||
| Washed Up - The Curious Journeys of Flotsam and Jetsam | |||||
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Skye Moody | ||||
| The Wave - In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean | |||||
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Susan Casey | ||||
| Weather - Children, Reading level 9-12 | |||||
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David Ellyard, editor | ||||
| Weight of Water | |||||
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Anita Shreve | ||||
| What the Sea Left Behind - Children, Reading level 4-8 | |||||
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Mimi Gregoire Carpenter | ||||
| What's in a Picture? - Uncovering the Hidden Stories in Vintage Maine Photographs | |||||
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Joshua F. Moore | ||||
| William Fife - Master of the Classic Yacht | |||||
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Franco Pace | ||||
| Windjammers, Lighthouses and Other Treasures of the Maine Coast | |||||
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Frank M. Chillemi | ||||
| Windswept A Maine Classic | |||||
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Mary Ellen Chase | ||||
| Windswept the Story of Wind and Weather | |||||
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Marq de Villiers | ||||
| Without a Prop | |||||
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David S. Yetman | ||||
| With Reckless Abandon Memoirs of a Boat-Obsessed Life | |||||
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Captain Jim Sharp | ||||
| Women Sailors and Sailors’ Women | |||||
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David Cordingly | ||||
| The Wooden Nickel | |||||
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William Carpenter | ||||
| The World is Blue How our Fate and the Ocean's are One | |||||
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Sylvia A. Earle | ||||
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