With Touring Vermont's Scenic Roads: A Comprehensive Guide, native Vermonter Ken Aiken proves a splendid guide to Vermont's most spectacular roads showcasing Vermont's quintessential New England scenery, lovely farms and villages, historic sites, beautiful and awe-inspiring mountains -- all absolutely free from billboard road sign pollution. Touring Vermont's Scenic Roads is enhanced for the cyclists or motorist with fascinating histories, anecdotes, and glimpses of local color -- and provides precise road directions providing a true sense of Vermont's scenic splendor and New England charm. If you are touring Vermont for business or pleasure, don't leave home without your very own copy of Touring Vermont's Scenic Roads.

The Most Scenic Roads In Massachusetts: 20 Routes Off The Beaten Path by travel writer John Gibson offers Massachusetts tourists a chance to see historic towns, magnificent natural splendor, and find charming lodgings, as they follow twenty routes most particularly selected for their especial appeal, enhanced with easy-to-follow maps and black-and-white photographs. A relaxing and enjoyable road travel guide, The Most Scenic Roads In Massachusetts truly lives up to its title and is enthusiastically recommended for vacationers, business travelers, and even local folk looking for recreational day-trip and weekender ideas.

I wore out two copies of the 1980 paperback edition of this book and for ten years I've had to refer to my tattered collection of unbound pages secured by paperclips! I'm thrilled to see this revised edition. As New England natural history enthusiasts know, there are very few identification guides which cover native and wild-growing shrubs of the northeast - even the latest Peterson Field Guide now only treats trees and not shrubs. This book is thorough, treating even willows with enough depth to aid the amateur naturalist, and has detailed illustrations which beautifully capture the colors and textures of shrubs' leaves, flowers and fruits. My botanist friends have pointed out that the book is not wholly consistent or thorough in delineating botanical features, but unweildy technical books such as Britain and Brown's volumes are available for such detail. I have searched the market for years and have never found a better all around guide to shrubs for the not quite professional naturalist than Marilyn Dwelley's. The descriptions of tree species are also excellent, and full of fascinating, not commonly known, bits of information, but good tree books are much easier to find. If you want to learn New England Shrubs, a challenging, rewarding, and not impossible task, this is the book!

Set in 1661 among Puritan colonists of America, An Unclean Act by Dean Burgess is an engaging and deftly written novel about religious intolerance, and conflicts between men and women of the pioneer era. Painting an unembellished picture of how life truly was, An Unclean Act follows the story of Thomas Burge, a man trapped in a loveless marriage, whose affair with another woman is considered "unclean" by community standards. An Unclean Act is recommended as being a thought-provoking period piece.

John Flynn's collection of poetry, "Unheard Scream" captures the venacular, the landscape, and the characters that make up any number of old New England cities that dot the map. One of the poems I particularly liked, (and I liked more than a few) is "mulcahey's pub under the merit sign". I love the title, it appoints the poem well, the reader knows what's being served to him. The poem concerns a gone-to-seed gin mill, that Flynn masterly paints with a colorful cast of barroom denizens. They are blue collar archivists of a forgotten 'hood. The bar and its partrons offer a curious balm to the poet's many dark nights of the soul. This chap rings true, and is the genuine article.

If you are looking for the perfect book about B&Bs in New England (or about small Inns), I've found it for you. I have used this book and have found its information accurate and its prose elegant. Having visited many a B&B, I have made quite a few discoveries-thanks to this book-wonderful places I never would have found on my own. I recommend this book to all!

I love your poem of the bear trail, so narrow
in the woods.. 1 footprint behind the other
.. i especially love that you did not say
'pawprint'..

your poems have humor and joy and unique
visions of life

Olive Pierce and Carolyn Chute have teamed up to tell it like it is on the coast of Maine, in this home-spun fishing family community.

Olive with her keen eye for catching glimpses of light in phenomenal settings with her camera, and her obviously very relentless effort to live with these folks and document their spirits, has got to stand out as an American best-work The black and white photography is moving to the heart. She qualifies her perspective in the forward to the book, sharing a moment to lead the reader to look and listen to only one's unbiased emotions.

Carolyn Chute is, as always, bold and cutting to the point. She is poetically harmonizing with words and the photography, bringing an explanation to a perspective from deep within the soul--that place sometimes ignored by the demands of our fast-paced material world.

And the people in the book, there just some of the best folks you'd ever want to know. Why? I've not only read the book, I know them. They're real; and UP RIVER proves that low-income people are to be respected for their place in the spectrum of human experience.

Tapply lets you in on a secret world of upland hunting in New England. You will take journeys through hidden covers and discover within yourself, reasons why the upland traditions need to be past on.

Loved it!

Now in a completely updated, revised and expanded second edition, David and Susan Siegel's The Used Book Lover's Guide To New England continues to be the "bible" for bibliophiles, dealers, and book lovers of all kinds and categories living in, or simply passing through, the New England states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Maine. This impeccable, superbly organized guide to more than 850 used book and antiquarian book dealers in New England is simply indispensable. Enhanced with a "Speciality Index" to help locate dealers specializing in a particular area of interest; easy to follow travel directions; seventeen city, regional and state maps; and valuable, experienced based comments about the book shops cited, The Used Book Lover's Guide To New England is almost as much fun to browse through as it is to plan an itinerary from!