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Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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This magnificent collection of photographs offers a journey through the back roads and hidden corners of Americas most idyllic and beloved region. Each scene, suffused with color and light, brings a moment of private discovery and awakens a sense of home.
Author: Stephen L. Carter
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307266966
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Lemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity school's deputy dean, are America's most prominent and powerful African American couple. Driving home through a swirling blizzard late one night, the couple skids off the road. Near the sight of their accident they discover a dead body. To her horror, Julia recognizes the body as a prominent academic and one of her former lovers. In the wake of the death, the icy veneer of their town Elm Harbor, a place Julie calls "the heart of whiteness," begins to crack, having devastating consequences for a prominent local family and sending shock waves all the way to the White House.
Author: Elaine Louie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743203755
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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From colonial farmhouses in the Rhode Island countryside to shingled beach cottages on Martha's Vineyard, this lush tour of some of New England's most inventive and quintessentially American interiors reveals the unique regional style that has come to define our country's idea of home. Color photos.
Author: Joseph A. Citro
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 1402733305
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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"It may seem like clambakes, the Red Sox, and the Patriots define New England, but boy did the Pilgrims land in one very strange spot! These six states are filled with odd curiosities and bizarre legends, such as the elusive Vermont hum, the hibernating hill folk, hillside whale tales, and the Holy Land (yes, you read that right). Tongue-in-cheek and filled with dry wit, this is a journey you'll not soon forget."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Author: Rick Lupert
Publisher: Ain't Got No Press
ISBN: 9780982058459
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Nothing in New England is New is Rick Lupert's 15th collection of poetry and latest in his poetic travelogue series. This edition takes you through such exotic American locations as Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Salem, Boston and Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Providence Rhode Island where they set the river on fire. Ride with Lupert's trademark wit down the highways of New England. Unexpected turns will be taken, Ekphrastic Observations will be made. You will laugh. You will question your own underwear. You will want to set your local river on fire. As always, clothing is optional. "Rick Lupert is a writer's chef. He used to be a writer's writer. Tomorrow he could be dead. You will be pleased at the way he masterfully sees something and then somehow manages to find a piece of paper and then write down something that is in no way reflective of what he truly saw. He is like a liar and a simile. If you want to laugh, there's this book or anything on NBC pre-1986." Derrick Brown, Write Bloody Publishing
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382805413
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Author: Lora Brody
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811843492
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The New England states are a pretty close-knit groupin fact, you could conceivably hop in the car and eat your way through all six states in a single day. Fortunately there's The New England Tablean easier way to enjoy the bounty of the northeast. Celebrated author of The Cape Cod Table and Boston area resident Lora Brody has combed Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut to share the wonderful dishes this rugged region is especially proud offrom traditional favorites such as Boston Baked Beans to enticing modern classics such as Red Flannel Salmon Hash or Pear and Candied Ginger Clafouti. With its evocative photographs of New England's people and places, and irresistible recipes, The New England Table will have everyone pining for a peaceful breakfast repast at Rangeley Lake, a musical picnic at Tanglewood, or an al fresco dinner in Litchfield County.
Author: Dona Brown
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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"Quaint, charming, nostalgic New England: rustic fishing villages, romantic seaside cottages, breathtaking mountain vistas, peaceful rural settings. In Inventing New England, Dona Brown traces the creation of these calendar-page images and describes how tourism as a business emerged in the nineteenth century and came to shape the landscape, economy, and culture of a region. She examines the irony of an industry that was based on an escape from commerce but served as an engine of industrial development, spawning hotel construction, land speculation, the spread of wage labor, and a vast market for guidebooks and other publications." "By the mid-nineteenth century, New England's whaling industry was faltering, lumbering was exhausted, herring fisheries were declining, and farming was becoming less profitable. Although the region had once been viewed as a center of invention and progress, economic hardship in the countryside fueled the development of the tourist industry. Before that time, elite vacations had been defined by the "grand tour" up the Hudson River to Saratoga Springs and Niagara Falls. Recognizing the potential of middle-class vacations, promoters of tourism fashioned a vision of pastoral beauty, rural independence, virtuous simplicity, and ethnic "purity" that appealed to an emerging class of urban professionals. By the latter nineteenth century, Brown argues, tourism had become an integral part of New England's rural economy, and the short vacation a fixture of middle-class life." "Focusing on such meccas as the White Mountains, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, coastal Maine, and Vermont, Brown describes how failed port cities, abandoned farms, and even scenery were churned through powerful marketing engines promoting nostalgia. "Old salts" dressed in sea captains' garb were recruited to sing chanteys and to tell tales of old whaling days to crowds of mesmerized tourists. Dilapidated farmhouses, "restored" to look even older, were transformed into quaint country inns. By the late nineteenth century, much of New England was highly urbanized, industrial, and ethnically diverse. But for tourists, the "real" New England was to be found in the remote areas of the region, where they could escape from the conditions of modern urban industrial life - the very life for which New Englanders had been praised a generation earlier." "In an epilogue that addresses the "packaging" of Cape Cod in the twentieth century, Brown discusses how human choices - not scenery - create a market for tourism. With fascinating anecdotes about entrepreneurial innkeepers, farmers, and others, Inventing New England explores the early growth of a new industry that was on the cutting edge of capitalist development even though its cultural "products" appeared untainted by market transactions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
