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A must-read for the craftsperson, artisan and artist. ¿In his beautiful book, Peter Korn invites us to understand craftsmanship as an activity that connects us to others, and affirms what is best in ourselves.¿¿Matthew Crawford, author of Shop Class as SoulcraftWoodworking, handicrafts ¿the rewards of creative practice, bringing something new and meaningful into the world through one¿s own vision, make us fully alive. Peter Korn explains his search for meaning as an Ivy-educated child of the middle class who finds employment as a novice carpenter on Nantucket, transitions to self-employment as a designer/maker of fine furniture, takes a turn at teaching at Coloradös Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and finally founds a school in Maine: the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, an internationally respected, non-profit institution.How does the making of objects shape our identities? How does creative work enrich our communities and society? What does the process of making things reveal to us about ourselves? Korn poignantly probes for answers in this book that is for the artist, artisan, crafter, do-it-yourselfer inside us all.

Over one hundred color photographs capture scenes of sea and shore ¿ a beautiful photographic tribute to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Representing all fifteen of the Cape¿s towns.Loosely chronicling the arc of a summer day, and ranging from formal nature studies to breezy journalistic images, these photographs offer a rich visual immersion into the essence of the varied and scenic peninsula that is Cape Cod.

A landmark in the annals of American photography and polar adventure, William Bradford's book The Arctic Regions was first published for subscribers in 1873. No more than three hundred copies of the leather-bound elephant folio are known to have been printed. This new edition contains an introduction written by the noted polar historian Russell A. Potter.

Bestselling author of 1861: The Civil War Awakening (Knopf / Vintage)Publication will coincide with the premiere of a feature-length National Geographic documentary about North Sentinel Island, the first such film ever produced. The film, whose working title is "The Last Mission," is slated for early 2023 release both online and in theaters. Its filmmakers have recorded more than six hours of interviews with Adam Goodheart, who is serving as a consultant on the production. They also plan to include photographs and journal entries chronicling his 1998 journey to the island.Apart from John Allen Chau - who did not live to tell the tale - Adam Goodheart is the only American known to have visited North Sentinel.North Sentinel Island has what might be called a worldwide fan base. Amidst a global culture of hyperconnectivity, the Sentinelese are portrayed as the lone holdouts. Especially since the death of John Allen Chau in 2018, millions of people around the world have been fascinated with this remote tribe. A few statistics:YouTube videos about North Sentinel Island have garnered a cumulative total of more than 106 million views.Hundreds of posts about North Sentinel Island on Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Quora have drawn millions of views, comments, and likes. An Instagram post just six weeks ago drew over 256,000 likes.Interest has not stopped since John Chau's death. A query on Quora last August about the island has garnered over 200,000 views in the past six months. ("Why don't the Sentinelese people try to discover the outside world, and why do they never leave their island? Have they ever been to South Andaman island which is just 10 mi away?").The death of John Allen Chau drew intense press coverage in almost every major news outlet. For instance, the New York Times ran seven stories about the incident in just a week, including a front-page feature. Yet there has never been any book published about North Sentinel Island. The Last Island will be the first of its kind.

A collection of great fishing stories by classic and contemporary authors-Zane Gray, Rudyard Kipling, Izaak Walton, James Prosek-broad in their reach and sweep.Ranging in location from the Sierras to Afghanistan, and there is as much meditative tranquility and resonance in these tales as stories of landing (or losing) "the big one."To be sure, there are the great stories of big fish by angling legends, but there are also stories of human connections, of challenge and pathos, of the peace, even the spirituality, that comes with being a part of nature, and the companionship, or solitude, that comes with fishing. The collection includes examples of every type of angling experience, each a classic in its own right, writing that is by turns whimsical, instructional and sometimes heartbreaking. Most species are represented, and not always in the usual places: trout fishing in Africa, salmon fishing in Iceland, carp in California, spring walleyes in Minnesota, and even killer sharks on the screen.

A beautiful New England Christmas story in the tradition of Dylan Thomas¿ remembrance, A Child¿s Christmas in Wales.In December of 1940, twelve-year-old Donnie Hall gets on a train from his comfortable Connecticut home to fulfill a dream: to spend Christmas with his grandparents on their farm on Eagle Pond in south central New Hampshire.Once there, he settles into the routines he knows well from his summer visits: helping Gramps milk the cows, gathering eggs from the henhouse, chopping wood for the Glenwood in the kitchen. But some things had changed.Winter milk was now picked up not by sleighs drawn by work horses on snow-packed roads, but by gasoline powered trucks. The fancy old red sleigh that had served the family so well was languishing, abandoned in a stall in the barn, and, not far from it, Old Riley, the loyal horse that had pulled that sleigh, and much else, for a quarter century. Donnie arrives on a Sunday and is due to leave on Thursday. But Wednesday night, the nor¿easter blows in and the farm is buried in two feet of snow. The road is unplowed; the car is useless. Will Donnie make it to the station in time to catch the train back to Boston?All this never happened. Donald Hall never did spend a childhood Christmas at Eagle Pond. But he knew all the stories from his mother and his grandparents and, now in his eighties, and having lived in that same house of his grandparents since 1975, he is in the perfect position to give himself ¿the thing I most wanted, a childhood Christmas at Eagle Pond.¿

A fascinating look into a special corner of New England summer home architecture: the many styles of homes in Dublin, New Hampshire.The small, high, mountain town of Dublin, New Hampshire was known as an artistic and literary retreat in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Less well known, but equally fascinating, is Dublin's claim as home to just about every architectural style and several major domestic architects of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. On its slopes, overlooking deep, spring-fed Dublin Lake and the looming Mount Monadnock, we find a virtual encyclopedia of building styles, ranging from the plain and unadorned to the most ornate and ambitious. A list of the architects who plied their trade in this small town would include Charles A. Platt, Peabody & Stearns, Rotch & Tilden, Henry Vaughan, and Lois Lilley Howe.In this immensely readable and enjoyable survey, veteran architectural historian William Morgan takes the reader on a verbally vivid and visually varied tour of the terrain, concentrating not only on the traditional and expected examples that crop up in Dublin as often as elsewhere, but also on the eccentric, unusual, and often unique extravaganzas that pepper its slopes. For Dublin was a place which for a century had both the money and the taste to indulge architects of all stripes and styles, and to give them commissions to design among the most beautiful and original examples their talents could produce.

The definitive fishing history of Gloucester, from its emergence in the 17th century to its decline in the 20th century. Using diaries, business records and interviews with surviving dorymen, John N. Morris paints an indelible portrait of a key New England industry and the port that has seen expansion and retraction, loss and tragedy.Morris chronicles such events as the Great Yankee Gale of 1851, which smashed into the Gloucester fishing fleet off the coast of Prince Edward Island. There is also the story of the waves of immigrants ¿ from the Azores, Nova Scotia, Sweden, Norway and Sicily ¿ who went to sea in their quest for the American dream. He traces the history of the great Gloucester schooner, the Oretha F. Spinney, one of the last working schooners. His own grandfather, Steve Olsson, was working for the schooner when he was lost at sea.With seventy vintage photographs and maps, an extensive glossary of fishing terms, and a detailed chronology of the Gloucester fleet, including all the fishermen and vessels lost at sea since 1693, Morris¿ book is a valuable resource for maritime buffs and historians, families of fishermen and anyone interested in a good yarn about life on the sea.

In 1926 on Cape Cod, writer/naturalist Henry Beston, living in a little house named the Fo'c'sle, observes native and migratory birds and other wonders of nature as the seasons change. Excerpts from Beston's nature book "The Outermost House" are interspersed throughout the story.

¿An utter delight...it opens windows into the history of this country by showing how some of this country¿s makers and shapers lived.¿¿Wall Street Journal.From Teddy Roosevelt¿s estate, Sagamore Hill, on Long Island to Harry Truman¿s humble home in Independence, Missouri, here are the homes¿inside and out¿of 15 American presidents through an artist's eyes. Adam Van Doren has a deep appreciation for architecture and the ways people shape their environments. About Mount Vernon: ¿Subtler touches, like the cupola, the faux rustication, and the red roof are all evidence of Washington¿s refined sense of how to transform an ordinary farmhouse into a stately manor.¿ At Franklin Roosevelt¿s Hyde Park home, Van Doren emphasizes its accommodations for F.D.R.¿s wheelchair. From Monticello in Virginia to Wheatland, the Pennsylvania home of James Buchanan, to Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas ¿ plus the White House, where all but the first president lived ¿ Van Doren records each home¿s style and heritage. All giving the reader a fresh look at Americäs presidents and their lives and times.

Two great poets thinking through life and literature in an unequalled correspondence: Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence: Volume 9.The ten-volume Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence is an enormously valuable, often thrilling, record of the friendship between two major poets, their greatest work largely still ahead of them both. Working out their thoughts in letters, Olson credited Creeley with formulating one of the basic principles of a new poetry: the idea that "form is never more than an extension of content." But there was also the larger issue of how a man of language must live in the world.The correspondence covers periods when both men were unsettled-Creeley restlessly moving his young family around isolated Mediterranean villages, Olson drifting indecisively between conflicting roles as mentor at Black Mountain and writer in Washington, D.C. Throughout, however, there is an intense, single-minded dedication to poetry and the unique difficulties of putting into language the creative rhythms of conscious thought. This collection of uncommon richness will charm, challenge and inspire.

An alphabet book that celebrates the birth of the United States of America. Wendell Minor¿s bright illustrations and expressive prose introduce young readers to the rich history behind the colonies and Revolutionary Era.A is for ¿Acts,¿ the British tax that incited unrest amongst American patriots. Z is for ¿Zane,¿ the daughter of Patriot Colonel Zane, Elizabeth, who saves the day by delivering more gunpowder for the deprived troops at Fort Henry. In between, Paul Revere, Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant, the Boston Tea Party, and the Liberty Bell, and many more people, places, and events of the young America grace these pages. A chronological timeline at the end puts all the events in order.

Great Camps of the Adirondacks is the first and foremost guide to historic camps within the spectacular forest preserve of Adirondack Park. When this book was originally published in 1982, it launched a campaign for the preservation of these architectural treasures while also sparking a trend in great camp-inspired home design. Today, the great camps are all under nonprofit, state, or private control. No longer just the seasonal homes of investment bankers such as Adolph Lewisohn who, 120 years ago, visited his 'Great Camp' with a staff of forty to minister to his guests' comfort in the wilds. Whatever the history and fate of each camp, they speak to us now as homes built to serve as beautiful reflections of the land itself.

A visual celebration that captures Maine's rockbound coastline, its precarious and isolated islands, its independent and hardworking people. From the fogs off Eastport to the lobster boats off Monhegan, from the grain elevators of Portland to the Shakers of Sabbathday Lake, photographer George Tice has created page after page of dauntingly beautiful images ¿ 107 quadtone photographs in all.

A book length series of poems, looking at life in all its imperfections through the viewpoint of an inextinguishable character whose spirit triumphs through humor. Clayfeld, a comic everyman, is the center of these poems about the nature of beauty, sorrow, and art, as well as the potential for happiness. Thwarted continually by ordinary defeats, Clayfeld endures and laughs, loves and remembers.Critic Harold Bloom called poet Robert Pack an heir to Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson. That heritage is fully apparent in this joyous and exuberant odyssey.

Winner of the 2015 PEN New England Award for PoetryThe linked poems in The Lost Child explore hope, delusion, family struggles, and lost selves through the people and places in the Ozarks of Southern Missouri. But the most important theme of all is reconciliation, as McNair attempts through these poems to know and understand his mother through the place she was born.

A series of stories illustrated with photographs and collages chosen by the author himself. Continued in his typical ¿stream-of-consciousness¿ style, The Trick is a wonderfully interesting read for fans of the Beat Generation.

"Lavender, basil, hyssop, balm, sage, rue - the thinking gardener's guide to herbs. Writer/naturalist Henry Beston, a founding father of the environmental movement, believed that a strong connection to nature is essential. "It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live," Beston says in his now-classic Herbs and the Earth. In this book, Beston shares one of those connections as seen through the oldest group of plants known to gardeners. "A garden of herbs," he writes, "is a garden of things loved for themselves in their wholeness and integrity. It is not a garden of flowers, but a garden of plants which are sometimes very lovely flowers and are always more than flowers." Whether you are already a committed herbalist or just dreaming of planting your first small garden, this book is a powerfully rich source of inspiration and information. As Roger B. Swain observes in his moving introduction, Herbs and the Earth has an intensity that evokes the herbs themselves, as if, pressed between the pages, their aroma has seeped into the pages. This Nonpareil edition includes a new afterword by environmentalist, educator, and author, Bill McKibben"--

“Insightful...empathetic...a thoughtful consideration of a topic that will have a substantial impact on our future.”—BooklistReadable Feast, Book Award Winner for Socially Conscious Writing * Civil Eats’ Food and Farming Book PickEver wonder if there’s a better way to live, work, and eat? You’re not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it’s the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice, to make the food on their table a little healthier, and to leave the planet less scarred than they found it. Throughout America’s history as an industrial nation, sizable countercultural movements have chosen to forgo modern comforts in pursuit of a simpler life. In this illuminating alternative American history, Margot Anne Kelley details the evolution of food-centric utopian movements that were fueled by deep yearnings for unpolluted water and air, racial and gender equality, for peace, for a less consumerist lifestyle, for a sense of authenticity, for simplicity, for a healthy diet, and for a sustaining connection to the natural world.Millennials who jettisoned cities for rural life form the core of America’s current back-to-the-land movement. These young farmers helped meet surges in supplies for food when COVID-19 ravaged lives and economies, and laid bare limitations in America’s industrial food supply chain. Their forebears were the utopians of the 1840s, including Thoreau and his fellow Transcendental friends who created Brook Farm and Fruitlands; the single taxers and “little landers” who created self-sufficient communities at the turn of the last century; Scott and Helen Nearing and others who decamped to the countryside during the Great Depression; and, of course, the hippie back-to-the-landers of the 1970s. Today, food has become an important element of the social justice movement. Food is no longer just about what we eat, but about how our food is raised and who profits along the way. Kelley looks closely at the efforts of young farmers now growing heirloom pigs, culturally appropriate foods, and newly bred vegetables, along with others working in coalitions, advocacy groups, and educational programs to extend the reach of this era’s Good Food Movement. Foodtopia is for anyone interested in how we all might lead much better—and well-fed—lives.

"Since he was a boy, Bill Eville knew he wanted two things in life: to be a writer and a father. Being a minister's husband had not been on this list, having left the church as a teenager as soon as his parents stopped making him go each Sunday. In Washed Ashore, Eville's life changes when his wife Cathlin takes a job as the first female pastor of a 350-year-old church on Martha's Vineyard, the island that was once home to generations of his ancestors. With their two small children in tow, the couple begins a new life eight miles out at sea. We follow Eville's journey from stay-at-home-dad to newspaper editor as he discovers what it means to be a writer, a father, and--after his wife's devasting breast cancer diagnosis--what it truly means to be a minister's husband" --

“Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit.”—Washington Post“Terrifying and fearlessly inventive.”—New York TimesThe first complete collection of Wanda Coleman’s original and inventive sonnets. Long regarded as among her finest work, these one hundred poems give voice to loving passions, social outrage, and hard-earned wisdom. Wanda Coleman was a beat-up, broke Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and ruthless intelligence: “to know, i must survive myself,” she wrote in “American Sonnet 7.” A poet of the people, she created the experimental “American Sonnet” form and published them between 1986 and 2001. The form inspired countless others, from Terrance Hayes to Billy Collins.Drawn from life’s particulars, Coleman’s art is timeless and universal. In “American Sonnet 61” she writes:reaching down into my griot bagof womanish wisdom and wilysocial commentary, i come up with brickswith which to either reconstructthe past or deconstruct a head....from the infinite alphabet of afrobluesintertwinings, i cull apocalyptic visions(the details and lovers entirely real)and articulate my voyage beyond thatpoint where self disappearsThese one hundred sonnets—borne from influences as diverse as Huey P. Newton and Herman Melville, Amiri Baraka and Robert Duncan—tell Coleman’s own tale, as well as the story of Black and white America. From “American Sonnet 2”:towards the cruel attentions of violent opiatesas towards the fatal fickleness of artistic raintowards the locusts of social impotence itselfi see myself thrown heart first into this ruinnot for any crimebut beingThis is a collection of electrifying truth that only an artist such as Wanda Coleman can deliver.

Ferlinghetti: A LifeThis expanded edition of Ferlinghetti: A Life¿published one year after Ferlinghetti¿s passing in 2021 at the age of 101¿includes a fascinating, hilarious new foreword about how the book came to be written in the late 1970s, an epilogue covering the last forty years of Ferlinghetti¿s life, and a personal, tender afterword about the long relationship between the author and his subject.Originally published in 1979, long out-of-printARC mailing to retailer A-list

Bilingual edition of the French masterpiece-with the definitive English translation.

“Beautifully alive.”—Wall Street JournalWinner of the 2022 Distinguished Book Award from The Society of Colonial WarsA tour through the original thirteen colonies in search of historical sites and their stories in America’s founding. Obscure, well-known, off-the-beaten path, and on busy city streets, here are taverns, meeting houses, battlefields, forts, monuments, homes which all combine to define our country—the places where daring people forged a revolution.There is always something new to be found in America’s past that also brings greater clarity to our present and the future we choose to make as a nation. Author-artist Adam Van Doren traveled from Maine to Georgia in that spirit. There are thirty-seven landmarks included, with fifteen additional locations noted in brief. From the Bunker Hill monument in Massachusetts to the Camden Battlefield Site in South Carolina, this is a tour of an American cultural landscape with a curious, perceptive, and insightful guide.The reader steps inside cabins at Valley Forge where nearly two thousand soldiers perished during a cruel winter, meets the chef at Philadelphia’s City Tavern where the menu is based on 18th century fare, seeks out the Swamp Fox in Georgia, visits the homes of Alexander Hamilton, John and Abigail Adams, the Joseph Webb House on the Connecticut River where French general Rochambeau made plans with Washington, and much more. An unvarnished view, we also see Philipsburg Manor, in Sleepy Hollow, New York, where Blacks were once held as slaves to work in the Hudson River Valley. For armchair travelers and anyone fascinated by Americana, Van Doren (The House Tells the Story: Homes of the American Presidents) has created an unforgettable journey through history. We see the Founders—both their stunning achievements and chilling moral failures—where they lived, fought, and agreed on a common purpose, to create a nation whose future—and legacy—is continually evolving.

Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch: The Complete Motorcycle Betrayal Poems In 1971, Diane Wakoski published the collection, The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, to tremendous acclaim. In the years that followed, Wakoski wrote additional ¿betrayal¿ poems and now all are collected here in one volume for the first time. As relevant as ever, moving, at times shocking, it is Wakoski¿s honesty and bravery as an artist that continues to astonish, delight, inspire, and liberate the reader. Our goal is to bring back Diane Wakoski as a major¿similarly to our getting behind Wanda Coleman. Diane Wakoski is a groundbreaking poet and the author of more than thirty books.ARC mailing to retailer A-list

A retrospective of the books published by David R. Godine, Publisher in its first 50 years.

The first biography of George Rickey, one of the greatest kinetic sculptors of the 20th century. His moving blades, squares, triangles, and circles can be found in museums and public spaces around the world, from bucolic landscapes to the streets of New York City. Now, here is the story of his life, his times, and his vision of balance that created something new-sculpture that is defined by movement.Before his death in 2002, George Rickey created more than 3,000 moving sculptures, including hundreds of major outdoor installations. His ¿useless machines,¿ as he called them, achieved complete rotation, used multiple variations of the pendulum, and delighted viewers with the joyride effects of conical movement. George Rickey: A Life in Balance follows the life of a renowned artist-first a painter, then a sculptor-who found inspiration all around him-as a child visiting the Singer Sewing Machine factory managed by his father, in his adventurous youth in the London and Paris art studios of the 1920s, as an engineer in the Army Air Corps during World War II, and later as a pioneer in academic art programs around the United States when he embarked on the sculpture he became famous for.But this is not only the story of a single artist¿s creativity and achievement but of Rickey¿s life in the larger context of the twentieth century: from Depression-era America to the upheaval of World War II, from the rise of New York as the world¿s art capital at mid-century to the tumultuous 1960s, when Rickey emerged as an international figure rubbing elbows with Alexander Calder, David Smith, Christo, and many others. It is also the story of an exceptional marriage and of Rickey¿s charismatic, devoted wife, Edith Leighton, who managed her husband¿s career and reputation in the high-powered art circles of New York, Berlin, and Los Angeles.Belinda Rathbone (author of The Boston Raphael and Walker Evans: A Biography) has captured the spirit of an artist and his world in this deeply researched and engrossing biography. George Rickey: A Life in Balance is for any reader fascinated by the lives of artists, the creation of enduring art, or twentieth century modernism. Includes 30 photographs that document Rickey¿s life and work.

¿Soaked in booze and sadness, psychotic eruptions and hilarity.¿¿Willy VlautinIn the freewheeling, debaucherous tradition of Charles Bukowski, a taxi driver¿s stories from the streets of lowlife Los Angeles¿with an introduction by Willy Vlautin. ¿Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw.¿¿New York Times. Dan Fante lived the stories he wrote. His voice has the immediacy of a stranger of the next barstool, of a friend who lives on the edge. As he writes in Short Dog (the title is street slang for a half-pint of alcohol): I had been back working a cabbie gig as a result of my need for money. And insanity. Hack driver is the only occupation I know about with no boss, and because I have always performed poorly at supervised employment, I returned to the taxi business. The up side, now that I was working again, was that my own boozing was under control and I was on beer only, except for my days off.Fante was the son of famed novelist and screenwriter John Fante, but as the Los Angeles Times wrote, the younger Fante ¿¿ allows us a glimpse of the Southern California demimonde that surely escaped his father¿s attention.¿These outsider stories are raw, vivid, and brutally honest. But even when the stories are fueled by anger and disgust, they are punctuated by unexpectedly funny and dark-humored vignettes. Short Dog is for readers ready for a cab ride on the wild side.