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“elinor de wire”

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  • Lightkeepers' Menagerie

    Stories of Animals at Lighthouses

    by Elinor De Wire ...
    Elinor De Wire has been writing about lighthouses and their keepers since 1972. During that time she found that hundreds of lighthouse animals wandered into her research notes and photo collection. This book is the story of all these cold-nosed, whiskered, wooly, hoofed, horned, slithery, buzzing, feathered, and finned keepers of the lights. Where else would a dog learn to ring a fogbell, a cat go ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Guardians of the Lights

    Stories of U.S. Lighthouse Keepers

    by Elinor De Wire ...
    In a charming blend of history and human interest, this book paints a colorful portrait of the lives of a vanished breed—the lighthouse keepers—from the year 1716, when the first lighthouse was established in America, to the early 1980s when automation replaced the last human “guardian of the light." A wealth of material from the archives of the 19th and 20th centuries—primarily letters, diaries, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast

    Your Guide to the Lighthouses of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia

    by Elinor De Wire ...
    Interest in the history and preservation of lighthouses has never been stronger. Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast details the history of lighthouses and much more, and shows why these structures continue to fascinate us. Discover what life for lighthouse keepers was really like. Learn about the history of U.S. colonial lighthouses and the role lighthouses have played in several wars. Meet the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

    by ERNEST HEMINGWAY ...
    "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest HemingwayAbout: This novella tells the story of an aging Cuban fisherman named Santiago and his epic battle with a giant marlin. It’s a tale of endurance, pride, and the struggle between man and nature. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • A River Never Sleeps

    by Roderick L. Haig-Brown, Thomas McGuane ...
    Few books have captured the haunting world of music and rivers and of the sport they provide as well as A River Never Sleeps. Roderick L. Haig-Brown writes of fishing not just as a sport, but also as an art. He knows moving water and the life within it-its subtlest mysteries and perpetual delights. He is a man who knows fish lore as few people ever will, and the legends and history of a great ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hard Light

    by Michael Crummey ...
    On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fifth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of Hard Light features a new Introduction by Lisa Moore, a new Afterword by the author and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First published in 1998, Hard Light retells and reimagines his father’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Curve of Time

    New, Expanded Edition

    by M. Wylie Blanchet, Michael Blanchet ...
    A beloved and bestselling Pacific Northwest classic, now available in paperback from Harbour Publishing!Widowed at the age of thirty-five, Muriel Wylie Blanchet packed up her five children in the summers that followed and set sail aboard the twenty-five-foot Caprice. For fifteen summers, in the 1920s and 1930s, the family explored the coves and islands of the BC coast, encountering settlers and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paddling North

    A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage

    by Audrey Sutherland ...
    In a tale remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska in an inflatable kayak. Paddling North is a compilation of Sutherland’s first two (of over 20) such annual trips and her day-by-day travels through the Inside Passage from ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Longest Silence

    A Life in Fishing

    by Thomas McGuane ...
    From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts comes a collection of alternately playful and exquisite essays—including seven collected here for the first time—borne of a lifetime spent fishing."Thomas McGuane writes about fishing better than anyone else in the history of mankind." —Jim Harrison, New York Times bestselling author of Legends of the FallThe forty ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Curve of Time

    50th Anniversary Edition

    by M. Wylie Blanchet, Eileen Blanchet ...
    The 50th anniversary edition of this BC classic will make a timeless keepsake.This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer.Muriel Wylie Blanchet acted single-handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and, of course, mum, as she saw her ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Upriver and Downstream

    The Best Fly-Fishing and Angling Adventures from the New York Times

    by New York Times ...
    Upriver and Downstream gathers seventy columns about fishing—from freshwater to saltwater, from small ponds to the Great Lakes, from the Pacific Northwest to post-Soviet Russia—written for the “Outdoors” column of the New York Times.Contributors include such celebrated names as Nick Lyons, Thomas McGuane, Nelson Bryant, Peter Kaminsky, Ernest Schweibert, and Robert H. Boyle. Short, evocative, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Uncle John's Creature Feature Bathroom Reader For Kids Only!

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series series For Kids Only
    Get ready to walk on the wild side!Once upon a time, Uncle John set his ghouls on a task to create three new For Kids Only! books: Strange & Scary, Wild & Woolly, and Under the Slimy Sea. But then a giant green creature oozed out of the muck and gobbled them all up! And what did that horrible thing spit out? This book--Creature Feature! It’s bubbling over with more than 400 pages of blood-curdling ... Read more

    $10.99 USD