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Catherine Schmitt
Paperback, $20
ISBN 978-0-88448-303-8
8 x 10, 176 pages, illustrated
Environmental / New England
MAINE BOOKS:
Backyard Maine: Essays by Edgar Allen Beem—NewCranberry, The: Hard Work and Holiday Sauce—New
From Indian Island to Omaha Beach: Charles Shay, Penobscot Indian War Hero—New
Land in Between, The: The Upper Saint John Valley, Prehistory to World War I—New
Live Yankees: The Sewalls and Their Ships—New
Maine in the World: Stories from Some of Those from Here Who Went Away —New
New Mainers: Portraits of our Immigrant Neighbors—New
A1 Diner
America’s Kitchens
Antiqueman's Diary
Camera's Coast, The
Catboat Era, The
Changing Maine
Coastal Companion
Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay
Continental Liar from the State of Maine
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
In the Shadow of the Eagle
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
North by Northeast
Not Your Average Bear
Old Town Canoe, The
On Wilderness
One Man's Meat
Patriarch of Maine Shipbuilding
Place on Water, A
Rangeley and Its Region, The
Red right Returning
Rediscovering S. P. Rolt Triscott
Remarkable Americans
Same Great Struggle, The
Sea Struck
Sharing the Ocean
Shipyard in Maine, A
Snow Squall
That Yankee Cat
Turnaround
Unsettled Future, Unsettled Past
Upriver Passamaquoddy, An
Voyage of Archangell, The
Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader
While You're Here, Doc
Wilderness Partners
Wood and Canvas Canoe, The
Worthy of the Sea
- "Schmitt's experience as a science writer shows here as she engages readers' interest in her subjects while gently educating them. She moves easily between field-guide-style descriptions of fish, invertebrates, plants, and birds, clear explanations of migratory, tidal, and other natural processes at work in the Gulf, and thoughtful observations." —Gulf of Maine Times
- "It's how science should be explained.... This is a delightful book to read, browse in, and one that would make an excellent gift. There isn't a dull day in the whole year." —Quoddy Tides
- "In a superb effort to make natural science interesting, entertaining, and educational, Maine author Catherine Schmitt has produced a highly readable scientific almanac and field guide.... Schmitt offers one of the best books yet about science, written with clear explanations and loaded with clever anecdotes...a wonderful scientific treasury that wisely explores the enormity, complexity and inter-relationships between the land and sea and all the creatures of both worlds." —Kennebec Journal
Poems by twelve contemporary poets open each chapter, and illustrations by two Maine artists, Kimberleigh Martul-March and Margaret Campbell, are featured throughout the text. This is a book to keep close at hand, to be read not all at once, but through the seasons, one day at a time, and enjoyed year after year.
Catherine Schmitt is a science writer for the Maine Sea Grant College Program. She believes that combining science and art is an effective way to bring science to a wider audience.
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