Two Islands: Grand Manan and Sanibel. Illustrated with Photographs by the Author.
by Scherman, Katharine
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- Hardcover
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Dade City, Florida, United States
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1971). First Edition, stated. Octavo, green cloth & gray marbled boards (hardcover), silver letters, marbled endpapers, uncut, 256 pp. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine & edges, light edgewear. From dust jacket: Grand Manan is an awesome island, craggy-clipped, thickly wooded, often shrouded in fog. It stands solid, fifteen and a half miles long and six and a half miles at its widest, off the northernmost tip of the Maine coast at the mout of the Bay of Fundy. Around Grand Manan flows the cold Labrador Current, filled with herring, cod and lobster, and the wet winds off the bay nourish the land’s lush meadows and dense ancient forests. Sanibel lies just off the Western coast of Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico. About twelve miles long, Sanibel was created by the accumulation of shells and mangrove swamps building over the millennia into a gentle sandspit whose highest point, a grove of lime trees and palmettos, is fourteen feet above sea level. Two islands, one north, one south, both inhabited yet still largely unspoiled and unexploited. Two Islands is their stories. In Two Islands, Katharine Scherman invites the reader to share her recurring delight in every facet of these islands’ landscapes. She sketches geological formations and historical backgrounds, then describes her own explorations of forests, swamps, sandy beaches, and chilly bluffs. Each island emerges as a small separate world whose spell can make the larger world and its preoccupations seem far away and irrelevant...
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- Lighthousebooks, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9793gcs
- Title
- Two Islands: Grand Manan and Sanibel. Illustrated with Photographs by the Author.
- Author
- Scherman, Katharine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company, (1971). First Edition, stated.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Florida, Floridiana, Florida History, Sanibel, Grand Manan.
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Dade City, Florida
About Lighthousebooks, ABAA
Lighthouse Books, ABAA is a family-owned and operated book shop located in downtown Dade City, Florida, celebrating more than 40 years of business. We're open to the public Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Our specialties include Florida history and literature, Americana, literature of the South, military history (including, but not limited to, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Korean War), children's literature, antique maps, leather bindings and rare & unusual items. We have a wide variety of general stock, including a large landscape/gardening section, a great selection of Christian/church history/Bible study titles, Beat literature, fishing, aviation, maritime, Asian history, African history, European history, South Pacific, British history, archaeology, psychology, philosophy, Latin American and Caribbean history, Canadian history, discovery & exploration, art, antiques & collectibles' reference, pop-up books, railroads, hunting, fire arms, etc. About 25 per cent of our total stock is listed in our online inventory. If ever you're in the area, we invite you to come in and browse; to show our appreciation, we'll offer a 15 per cent discount off any purchases made on your first visit. The proprietor, Michael F. Slicker, is one of about 450 qualified members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, Inc., and its affiliate the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He was also the founding president of the the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association and is still an active member and committee chairman. In addition to keeping regular hours at the storefront location, Lighthouse Books participate as a vender in about a dozen book fairs, antiques shows, map fairs and related events each year. One such show is The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, an annual trade show/charity benefit held in downtown St. Petersburg in the spring, that has become the oldest and largest antiquarian book fair in the Southeast; Slicker has served as Chair since its inception thirty years ago. Please contact us for more information regarding our certified appraisal services. Please visit our website: www.OldFloridaBookStore.com. Bibliophiles might also enjoy our blog, featuring articles on unusual books, author biographies, and other book related subjects:.OldFloridaBookStore.blospot.com.
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