Down East Books imprint: 419 books

Becoming Teddy Roosevelt

How a Maine Guide Inspired America's 26th President

by Andrew Vietze
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010

This inspirational tale of friendship and determination also sheds new light on the role of the mentor's mentor. Discover why this friendship was so crucial to Roosevelt's development as a man and a president-and why it still matters today.

George & Barbara Bush

A Great American Love Story

by Ellie LeBlond Sosa, Kelly Anne Chase
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018

“To begin with I was in love and I am in love so that’s not hard,” Barbara Bush told her granddaughter Ellie LeBlond Sosa on her porch in Kennebunkport, Maine. Sosa had asked for the secret to her and President George H.W. Bush's77-year love affair that withstood World War II separation, a leap...

The Rebel Yell & the Yankee Hurrah

The Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer

by John W. Haley
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014

On an "I will if you will" dare, John Haley enlisted in the 17th Maine Regiment in August 1862 "for three years, unless sooner discharged." ("Discharged, shot, or starved" would have been more accurate, Haley later wryly observed.) Though a reluctant soldier at first, he served steadfastly in the...

Bar Harbor's Gilded Century

Opulence to Ashes

by Lydia Vandenberg, Earle G. Shettleworth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009

Maine's premier tourist destination, Bar Harbor has many historic buildings. The area was once a shipbuilding and farming hamlet that became a Gilded Age resort of the highest order-until a fire in 1947 destroyed many of its buildings. This pictorial history takes Bar Harbor from its origins to the...
by Sy Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002

What could be better than watching the natural world out your window or on your television? Going out and experiencing it firsthand. In these fifty essays, acclaimed nature and science writer Sy Montgomery takes her readers on a season-by-season tour of the wilderness that is often as close as the...

Vacationland

A Half Century Summering in Maine

by David E. Morine
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015

David Morine’s long love affair with Maine began when he was a boy in 1946 and his parents rented their first lakeside cabin in Fryeburg. At first skeptical about the cost and the lack of plumbing or electricity, the Morines quickly felt right at home. There was plenty of good fishing and good company...
by Peter G. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

This book is a magnificently illustrated volume that will help anglers, scientists, and nature lovers to identify and appreciate North American freshwater game fish. Along with illustrations that showcase gender color variations for each species, Thompson provides information about fish biology, behavior,...
by Terry Wieland
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009

The popularity of rifles designed to take big game has never been greater. Terry Wieland, a widely recognized firearms expert, explores in detail the rifles and calibers that are drawing attention. This second edition covers what has changed in the field since the first edition was published-new calibers,...
by Alessandrao De Maddalena
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

Those who think sharks are a predominantly tropical species will be in for quite a surprise when they learn that the cold waters of New England are home to 33 different species. The aim of this book is to provide both accurate scientific information on sharks and to profile those species that inhabit the waters of New England.
by Charles Fergus
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005

When award-winning outdoor and nature writer Charles Fergus decided to leave his longtime home in Pennsylvania, he wrote a memoir of his last season hunting upland birds—grouse, woodcock, and pheasant— in his favorite coverts, some of which he had visited every autumn for almost thirty years....

Discovering Amphibians

Frogs and Salamanders of the Northeast

by John Himmelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

As author Himmelman can attest, people of all ages are actively learning more about frogs, toads, and salamanders. This book covers everything from amphibians' physiology to their place in folklore and literature to possible explanations of why many populations have declined. Along the way we learn...
by Silvio Calabi, Steve Helsley, Roger Sanger
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

The second of a three-volume series, this book is aimed at parents whose children have read The Gun Book for Boys and want to get started shooting. It is a straightforward treatment of the “adult” concerns about firearms and shooting, from safety and legal issues to costs, potential pitfalls and...

Green Wood and Chloroform

How a Young English Doctor Settled in Rural Maine

by Anthony Betts
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

Like many new general practitioners in the 1950s, Dr. Anthoy Betts faced few real opportunities under the new British National Health Care system. So, with little more than a suitcase, he and his wife and two babies set off for the U.S.A. Moving to rural Maine in the middle of January, they...
by Bill Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002

This fast-paced and fascinating story, originally published in 1983, covers a vital part of coastal Maine's history too long overlooked: the cultural history of the Penobscot, Kennebec, Saco, and Damariscotta Rivers. More than three hundred years are covered, from the days of pioneer settlers, sea...
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