Exploring the Maine Woods - The Hardy Family Expedition to the Machias Lakes

<p>We ran away this fall. In <strong>fleeing the telegraph the post-office the door bells and all our many masters</strong> we experienced a sweet if guilty satisfaction which more than compensated the unpropitious skies that followed us - this is the chronicle of the trip. Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. </p><p><br></p><p>From a series of articles written in 1891 comes a paddling memoir that weaves together woodlore with a knowledge of literature and <strong>Maine</strong> history. The writing is superbly descriptive of the Maine woods the prose is often like poetry and the feeling of the period is captured on the pages. </p><p><br></p><p>Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm was not a fur trader like her father Manly Hardy or a trapper like her grandfather but she knew the woods. She was an interpreter of nature an ornithologist an expert on early Maine history with scientific habits and mind for detail. </p><p>This annotated edition of a Father-Daughter canoe trip celebrates one of the earliest and most talented Maine outdoor writers.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Read about the Maine woods history of the Machias Lakes region stories about The Outlaw Jock Darling the legendary Maine storyteller Uncle Bill Barrett and even the original Penobscot Man - Big Sebattis Mitchell.</strong></p><p>This book is more than a memoir of a camping trip it is a tale of Maine woodcraft and includes details about the Maine woods told only the way those familiar with the region could do so.</p><p><br></p><p>ISBN 978-1-954048-07-2 is the <strong>commemorative dust jacket hardcover edition.</strong></p>