Cultured Travel Guide Books - Among the Isles of Shoals (Revisiting New England) |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9781584653301
ISBN: 1584653302
Label: UPNE
Manufacturer: UPNE
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2003-06-01
Publisher: UPNE
Studio: UPNE |
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Summary: Amoung the Isles of Shoals
Comment: This book was another visit to a previous century, and I loved reading it. Very poetic and also interesting to read someone's observations of their world, and compare it to how we live today!
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Summary: Local history
Comment: Well written. had to keep reminding myself this was written in the 1800's. Good overview of the islands and reflections of life in those times.
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Summary: I absolutely loved this book....
Comment: I had trouble putting this book down. I only did to make it last longer.
Celia totally loved her garden. She wrote about the flowers she planted, the birds who came to visit, and her battle with slugs. How I pulled for her to defeat those slugs!
This book had me itching to work in my own garden. I plan to read it every spring.
If you find it interesting reading about other people's exploits with their own gardens then you should enjoy this delightful book.
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Celia Thaxter was already a popular poet when she began to publish the essays of Among the Isles of Shoals in the Atlantic Monthly in 1869; they were an immediate sensation. Charles Dickens called Thaxter's essays "admirable" and Horace Greeley declared, "The best prose writing I have seen for a long time is Mrs. Thaxter's 'Isles of Shoals' in the Atlantic. Her pen-pictures are wonderfully well-done."
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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