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Annotated by David C. Morey
Hardcover; $20; ISBN 0-88448-271-5
6 x 9, 160 pages, maps
MAINE BOOKS:
America’s Kitchens —NewA Coastal Companion: A Gulf of Maine Almanac, from Canada to Cape Cod —New
In the Shadow of the Eagle: A Tribal Representative in Maine —New
North by Northeast: Wabanaki, Akwesasne Mohawk, and Tuscarora Traditional Arts —New
Partners in Wilderness: Buzz Caverly and Baxter State Park —New
Patriarch of Maine Shipbuilding: The Life and Ships of Gardiner G. Deering—New
Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family —New
Sharing the Ocean: Stories of Science, Politics, and Ownership from America's Oldest Industry —New
A1 Diner
Antiqueman's Diary
The Camera’s Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England
Catboat Era, The
Changing Maine
Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay
Continental Liar from the State of Maine: James G. Blaine
Day's Work, A (Vol. I)
Day's Work, A (Vol. II)
Doryman's Day, A
Down on the Island, Up on the Main
Downeast: A Maritime History of Maine
Eminent Mainers
Fly Rod Crosby
Interrupted Forest, The
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. I
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. II
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. IV
Journalism Matters
Just One More Thing, Doc
Letters from Sea
Life Between the Tides
Little Pine to King Spruce
Maine Hamlet, A
Maine Made Guns & Their Makers
Maine's Visible Black History
Not Your Average Bear
Old Town Canoe, The
On Wilderness
One Man's Meat
Place on Water, A
Rangeley and Its Region, The
Red right Returning
Rediscovering S. P. Rolt Triscott
Same Great Struggle, The
Sea Struck
Shipyard in Maine, A
Snow Squall
That Yankee Cat
Turnaround
Unsettled Future, Unsettled Past
Upriver Passamaquoddy, An
Voyage of Archangell, The
Voyage of Detroit, The
Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader
While You're Here, Doc
Wood and Canvas Canoe, The
Worthy of the Sea: K. Aage Nielsen and His Legacy of Yacht Design
Which river? This question has been an ongoing controversy, even to the present day. Our best information comes from James Rosier, who was aboard the ship Archangell as a "gentleman" employed to document the voyage. His narrative, A True Relation, gives us one of the earliest written accounts of the natural resources of northern New England and the Native people who resided here. But because Waymouth hoped to return with financial backing to establish a new colony, Rosier's glowing account is cagey about certain geographic specifics—obviously, they didn't want someone else to act on their information.
Did they venture up the St. George River? Or was it the Kennebec? The Penobscot? Morey makes a convincing case for the Penobscot River and offers some interesting thoughts on how different history might have been had the English, rather than the French, claimed land this far to the north.
Equally fascinating is Rosier's description and Morey's analysis of interaction with the Native Americans they met. Waymouth and his crew visited and traded with the local Indians to varying degrees of success, but then before leaving the coast, they kidnapped five Natives and took them back to England, ostensibly to glean more local knowledge from them. Their story, which Morey details separately, is still of great interest.
David C. Morey is an avocational historian who lives in Tenants Harbor, Maine, near the scene of the events in this book.
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