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Ladataan... The story of Mount Desert Island, MaineTekijä: Samuel Eliot Morison
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. A chatty, gossipy, and dated (especially when discussing the "Indians" that first lived on the island) history of Mount Desert Island. This is the island in Maine where Acadia National Park is located and where I recently vacationed. It is an absolutely beautiful spot. I picked this book up in a gift shop. It was ok, but not really what I was looking for. I would have preferred more info about the original inhabitants of the island, info about the creation of the national park, and about the 1947 fire. Instead this was mainly about the first European explorers and then life on the island in the mid to late 1800s. Fine, but not for everyone. ( ) näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
The Story of Mount Desert Island is part tribute to the glories and beauty of a place and part a history of its people-fisherman, sailor, farmer, lumberman, shipwright and quarryman rolled into one, and master of all. Originally conceived as a speech delivered to benefit local libraries, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Samuel Eliot Morison developed the text into a book first published in 1960. This revised edition adds historical photographs and commentary by Morison's daughter, Emily Morison Beck, editor of Sailor Historian, an anthology of Morison's work, and Gregory M. Pfitzer, an associate professor at Skidmore College and author of Samuel Eliot Morison's Historical World. But the text is vintage Morison. His breezy style captures the high points of the island's glorious history and touches many of Morison's own passions-from the early Abnaki tribes, to the great European explorers, to the island residents and rusticators, of which Morison was one, owning cottages in both Northeast Harbor and Tremont. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Google Books — Ladataan... LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)974.145History and Geography North America Northeastern U.S. Maine Washington; HancockKongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo:
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