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Notes on the Landscape of Home

By: Susan Hand Shetterly

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Notes on the Landscape of Home

By: Susan Hand Shetterly

“If you pay attention to the land where you live, you enter into conversation with it, until it becomes a voice inside you, and some of the boundaries between you and it dissolve,” write Susan Hand Shetterly. In this collection of elegant, spare, and often passionate essays, Shetterly explores what it is to live in a Down East coastal town, and to pay attention, over time, to what it offers of land, water, wildlife, and community. She takes her cue from Henry David Thoreau and Wendell Berry, who advocate for the virtues of staying in one place, believing that as we delve deeper into the landscape of home the more we learn about the world. As in many other places, this particular home place is in trouble. Shetterly celebrates the work of communities to restore environments their people know and love, and takes a closeup look at what is changing and what has been lost. Among her subjects are the reestablishment of the bald eagle, the reintroduction of the American turkey in Maine, and the turkey vulture’s northward trend. She also writes about shorebird migrations, the bluefin tuna and the humpback and right whales in the Gulf of Maine, counting alewives along a stream in the spring, seaweed cultivation in a bay, a forest’s rebirth, the island that gave her the imaginative space she needed, and more. She recounts how she and her neighbors kept each other company at a distance during the long months of the pandemic, and she celebrates coastal culture, its particular, deep history that anchors a person’s sense of place.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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168475030X

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Settled in the Wild

Notes from the Edge of Town

By: Susan Hand Shetterly

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Notes from the Edge of Town

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Whether we live in cities, suburbs, or villages, we are encroaching on nature, and it in one way or another perseveres. Naturalist Susan Shetterly looks at how animals, humans, and plants share the land—observing her own neighborhood in rural Maine. She tells tales of the locals (humans, yes, but also snowshoe hares, raccoons, bobcats, turtles, salmon, ravens, hummingbirds, cormorants, sandpipers, and spring peepers). She expertly shows us how they all make their way in an ever-changing habitat. In writing about a displaced garter snake, witnessing the paving of a beloved dirt road, trapping a cricket with her young son, rescuing a fledgling raven, or the town's joy at the return of the alewife migration, Shetterly issues warnings even as she pays tribute to the resilience that abounds. Like the works of Annie Dillard and Aldo Leopold, Settled in the Wild takes a magnifying glass to the wildness that surrounds us. With keen perception and wit, Shetterly offers us an education in nature, one that should inspire us to preserve it.

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Algonquin Books

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1565129733

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Settled in the Wild

Notes from the Edge of Town

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Notes on the Landscape of Home

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Seaweed Chronicles

A World at the Water’s Edge

By: Susan Hand Shetterly

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A World at the Water’s Edge

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“You might not expect unfettered passion on the topic of seaweed, but Shetterly is such a great storyteller that you find yourself following along eagerly.” —Mark Kurlansky “Seaweed is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth,” writes Susan Hand Shetterly in this elegant, fascinating book. “Why wouldn’t seaweeds be a protean life source for the lives that have evolved since?” On a planet facing environmental change and diminishing natural resources, seaweed is increasingly important as a source of food and as a fundamental part of our global ecosystem. In Seaweed Chronicles, Shetterly takes readers deep into the world of this essential organism by providing an immersive, often poetic look at life on the rugged shores of her beloved Gulf of Maine, where the growth and harvesting of seaweed is becoming a major industry. While examining the life cycle of seaweed and its place in the environment, she tells the stories of the men and women who farm and harvest it—and who are fighting to protect this critical species against forces both natural and man-made. Ideal for readers of such books as The Hidden Life of Trees and How to Read Water, Seaweed Chronicles is a deeply informative look at a little understood and too often unappreciated part of our habitat.

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1616205741

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The Tinker of Salt Cove

By: Susan Hand Shetterly

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The Tinker of Salt Cove

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This beautifully told romantic tale takes place at the end of the 19th century, and is based on the life of John Cling, tinker, as recorded in the annals of Sullivan, Maine. Inevitable changes are altering the lives of the inhabitants of this seacoast town. Their orderly ways, set by the tides and the seasons, are disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger from England. Two adolescent girls, just becoming aware of adult concerns, observe him through the seasons as he tries to find a place for himself. (SLJ)

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StarWalk Kids Media

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1623348110

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Muwin and the Magic Hare

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Muwin and the Magic Hare

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When Muwin the bear spies a lame snowshoe hare, he decides to have rabbit for dinner. What he doesn't realize is that the hare is Mahtoqehs, the Great Magic Hare of the Woods. As Muwin pursues the creature, the hare transforms himself into a hunter, an herb woman, and an old chief, who, on alternate nights entertains the bear and feeds him stew. The book preserves the humor and beauty of the Passamaquoddy culture of Maine and eastern Canada.

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The DwarfWizard of Uxmal

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The DwarfWizard of Uxmal

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With the magical aid of the old woman who hatched him from an egg, the diminutive Tol proves himself greater than the ruler of the city of Uxmal and takes his place as leader of the people.

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Seaweed Chronicles

A World at the Water’s Edge

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The Tinker of Salt Cove

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Book's by Susan Hand Shetterly

Notes on the Landscape of Home

Notes on the Landscape of Home

Settled in the Wild

Settled in the Wild

Settled in the Wild

Settled in the Wild

Notes on the Landscape of Home

Notes on the Landscape of Home

Seaweed Chronicles

Seaweed Chronicles

The Tinker of Salt Cove

The Tinker of Salt Cove

Muwin and the Magic Hare

Muwin and the Magic Hare

The DwarfWizard of Uxmal

The DwarfWizard of Uxmal

Seaweed Chronicles

Seaweed Chronicles

The Tinker of Salt Cove

The Tinker of Salt Cove

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