Published as a book in 1873, Among the Isles of Shoals remained equally popular, printed not only in hardcover but also in a fifty-cent guidebook edition which was sold in railway stations. Now generally considered to be Thaxter’s masterpiece, Among the Isles of Shoals is available once again in this new edition.
Thaxter herself was raised on the Isles of Shoals, a group of nine small, rocky islands off the coast of New Hampshire, and she lived there off and on for much of her life. This lyrical volume seamlessly blends natural history, oral tradition, and personal observation to create a work that one critic says feels “somehow distilled from the islands themselves.”
The bleak landscape of the Isles of Shoals has changed little since the time that Thaxter wrote this tribute, but as the Hartford Courant noted upon its original publication, “whether the traveler goes to these isles or not, if he has this little volume in his pocket, wherever he is he will have a most charming companion.”
Published as a book in 1873, Among the Isles of Shoals remained equally popular, printed not only in hardcover but also in a fifty-cent guidebook edition which was sold in railway stations. Now generally considered to be Thaxter’s masterpiece, Among the Isles of Shoals is available once again in this new edition.
Thaxter herself was raised on the Isles of Shoals, a group of nine small, rocky islands off the coast of New Hampshire, and she lived there off and on for much of her life. This lyrical volume seamlessly blends natural history, oral tradition, and personal observation to create a work that one critic says feels “somehow distilled from the islands themselves.”
The bleak landscape of the Isles of Shoals has changed little since the time that Thaxter wrote this tribute, but as the Hartford Courant noted upon its original publication, “whether the traveler goes to these isles or not, if he has this little volume in his pocket, wherever he is he will have a most charming companion.”
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| ISBN-13: | 9781584653301 |
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| Publisher: | University Press of New England |
| Publication date: | 06/01/2003 |
| Series: | Revisiting New England Series |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d) |