Product Description: Camouflage Simplified, first published in 1942, is a fascinating World War II look at the science and art of camouflage to hide and protect aircraft, structures, highways, ships and more. Written and illustrated by noted artist and historian Eric Sloane (1905-1985), the book details the many ways nature's camouflage techniques can be applied as protective defensive measures...read more

Pencil sketches accompany descriptions of early American objects from the almanack and johnny-cake to the niddy noddy and zig-zag fence. Briefly discusses the use of the alphabet in early America.

Looks at how early American settlers made barns, tools, and utensils from wood, and tells how to recognize common North American trees

Product Description: For his fifteenth birthday in 1805, Noah Blake received a little leather-bound diary. This reprint of his actual journal offers modern readers a charming glimpse of a vanished era through the eyes of a nineteenth-century farm boy...read more

Shows, and describes the construction and use of a variety of hand tools, including axes, hammers, adzes, wedges, chisels, gouges, planes, saws, bit braces, blacksmithing tools, hay implements, and scythes

Examines the physical buildings and equipment used in early American schoolhouses, providing a glimpse of a simpler time in American educational history.

Product Description: The finest "cloudscape" painter of his generation, Eric Sloane enjoyed traveling back in time to explore how early American farmers interpreted and embraced weather signs. Examining old records, he learned that most farmers kept daily weather reports, which they referred to year after year to help them decide when to plant, harvest, and perform other farm chores...read more

Product Description: One of America's favorite folk artists, Eric Sloane started out as an itinerant sign painter—a profession that took him from New England to New Mexico and many places in between. Along the way, he did ink-on-white-paper sketches of passing scenes and landscapes...read more

A new edition of the classic guide to Americana by the acclaimed late artist provides a varied overview of American lore and accomplishments, all organized alphabetically and including the artist's hand-lettering and captions explaining the origin and use of items ranging from the saltbox house and popcorn to rocking chairs and hex signs. Reprint.

Discusses the handicrafts, home life, work ethic, religious beliefs, relationship with nature, and other aspects of the daily life of the early American pioneers and farmers

Product Description: Voyageur Press is proud to publish this new edition of Eric Sloane’s classic folksy history of American weather. Combining two Sloane books, "Eric Sloane’s Almanac and Weather Forecaster" (1955) and "Folklore of American Weather" (1963), this omnibus is filled with traditional weather sayings and beliefs...read more

Excerpts from a teenager's diary interspersed with the author's comments and illustrations depict the lifestyle and crafts of rural New England

Written with humor and affection, and enhanced with 81 of the author’s charming, historically accurate drawings, Our Vanishing Landscape takes readers on a leisurely sojourn through a bygone era. Leading us along rustic winding roads bordering fields and farmhouses, Eric Sloane captures our imaginations as he offers us a guided tour that evokes the America of pioneer times.This fascinating narrative describes networks of canals, corduroy roads, and turnpikes; tollgates, waterwheels, and icehouses; country inns and churches; ingenious and colorful road signs; and massive snow-rollers that packed snow into hard surfaces for great sleds. Here also are engrossing accounts of toll-road owners, sign painters, circus folk, and other entertainers of the period.Brimming with anecdotes about people and the times, this delightful, warmly written book remains a genuine and permanent contribution to the field of Americana.

A delightful blend of serious meteorology and beautiful illustrations, this informative book displays the many talents of Eric Sloane. A writer, landscape painter, weather forecaster, and authority on early American history, Sloane takes readers with him on a voyage of discovery as he traces a single air mass from the Canadian Rockies to northern New England. A vivid narrative and the author's own pen-and-ink sketches describe the progress of the air mass over America, and tell about its encounters with other elements of weather systems and with Americans from a variety of backgrounds.

The architecture and history of the barns and bridges built by the farmer-carpenter are depicted in drawings and text