University Press Of New England: 148 books
by Howard S. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
In offering here a highly readable yet comprehensive description of New England's Indians as they lived when European settlers first met them, the author provides a well-rounded picture of the natives as neither savages nor heroes, but fellow human beings existing at a particular time and in a particular...
Arts and Crafts Architecture
History and Heritage in New England
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement has grown since the 1970s, the literature on New England has...
Dawnland Encounters
Indians and Europeans in Northern New England
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2000
Colin G. Calloway collects, for the first time, documents describing the full range of encounters of Indians and Europeans in northern New England during the Colonial era. His comprehensive and highly readable introduction to the subject of Indian and European interaction in northern New England covers...
The Sea Mark
Captain John Smith’s Voyage to New England
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
By age thirty-four Captain John Smith was already a well-known adventurer and explorer. He had fought as a mercenary in the religious wars of Europe and had won renown for fighting the Turks. He was most famous as the leader of the Virginia Colony at Jamestown, where he had wrangled with the powerful...
by Thomas Durant Visser
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2000
The quintessential New England barn–photogenic, full of character, and framed by flaming autumn foliage–is an endangered species. Of some 30,000 barns in Vermont alone, nearly a thousand a year are lost to fire, collapse, or bulldozers. Thomas Durant Visser’s field guide to the barns, silos,...
Golden Wings & Hairy Toes
Encounters with New England’s Most Imperiled Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book profiles fourteen of New England’s most rare and endangered flora and fauna—mammals, birds, insects, plants, and fish—by following the biologists who are researching, monitoring, and protecting them. Each chapter includes a first-person account of the author’s experience with these...
Through a Naturalist's Eyes
Exploring the Nature of New England
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
For native and visitor alike, the New England landscape has a rich allure. This grand sweep of land is a living tapestry woven of interconnected bioregions and natural communities whose compositions of plants and animals have evolved over time. In more than fifty essays, Michael J. Caduto brings readers...
Spirit of the New England Tribes
Indian History and Folklore, 1620–1984
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Spanning three centuries, this collection traces the historical evolution of legends, folktales, and traditions of four major native American groups from their earliest encounters with European settlers to the present. The book is based on some 240 folklore texts gathered from early colonial writings,...
The Puritan Experiment
New England Society from Bradford to Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
This revised and updated edition of an out-of-print classic once again makes the broad background of Puritanism accessible to students and general readers. Based on a chronology that begins with the Act of Supremacy in 1534 and ends with Jonathan Edwards's death in 1758, Francis J. Bremer's interpretive...
North Country Captives
Selected Narratives of Indian Captivity from Vermont and New Hampshire
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
Revealing firsthand narratives of Indian captivity from eighteenth-century New Hampshire and Vermont. Narratives of Europeans who experienced Indian captivity represent one of the oldest genres of American literature. They are often credited with establishing the stereotype of Indians as cruel and...
The Palatine Wreck
The Legend of the New England Ghost Ship
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Two days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia grounded in a blizzard on the northern tip of Block Island, twelve miles off the Rhode Island coast. The ship carried emigrants from the Palatinate and its neighboring territories in what is now southwest...
Birdwatching in Maine
A Site Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
With nearly 450 species of birds recorded, Maine offers an abundance of birding opportunities for people of all levels of interest and experience, from those looking beyond their backyards for the first time to knowledgeable visitors looking to plug a hole in their list of sightings. The state’s...
by Charles W. Johnson, Ian Worley
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2000
What makes bogs so interesting yet so misunderstood? This generously illustrated book presents many of the exciting, almost enthralling, facets of bogs--unusual plants, intricate ecological relationships, animals, myths and folklore, and the myriad history recorded in the peats. Despite the fascinating...
Deluge
Tropical Storm Irene, Vermont’s Flash Floods, and How One Small State Saved Itself
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
On August 28, 2011, after pounding the Caribbean and the U.S. Eastern seaboard for more than a week, Hurricane Irene finally made landfall in New Jersey. As the storm headed into New England, it was quickly downgraded to a tropical storm. And by Sunday afternoon, national news outlets were giving...