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Paperback:
9781608933815 | 2 edition (Down East Books, October 30, 2015), cover price $16.95
9780892725380 | Down East Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $7.97
Hardcover:
9780324182927, titled "Managerial Accounting: A Focus on Decision Making" | South-Western Pub, June 1, 2003, cover price $70.95 | also contains Managerial Accounting: A Focus on Decision Making
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9781934031599 | Islandport Pr Inc, March 7, 2014, cover price $16.95
For nearly twenty-five years, poet Baron Wormser and his family lived in a house in Maine with no electricity or running water. They grew much of their own food, carried water by hand, and read by the light of kerosene lamps. They considered themselves part of the "back to the land" movement, but their choice to live off the grid was neither statement nor protest: they simply had built their house too far from the road and could not afford to bring in power lines. Over the years, they settled in to a life that centered on what Thoreau called "the essential facts." In this graceful meditation, Wormser similarly spurns ideology in favor of observation, exploration, and reflection. "When we look for one thread of motive," he writes, "we are, in all likelihood, deceiving ourselves." His refusal to be satisfied with the obvious explanation, the single thread of motive, makes him a keen and sympathetic observer of his neighbors and community, a perceptive reader of poetry and literature, and an honest and unselfconscious analyst of his own responses to the natural world. The result is a series of candid personal essays on community and isolation, nature, civilization, and poetry. "When people contemplated the way we lived, the outhouse was what stopped them. Wood heat was bearable; the lack of a refrigerator was a bother but bearable; but an outhouse was not bearable. Even a pleasantly appointed outhouse like ours, a two-seater with screened windows that offered a view of the piney woods that sloped down to the road and that stood at the end of a winding path lined with ferns and striped maples, was still an indignity. Even an outhouse with a sizable overhang to keep off the weather and a toilet paper holder that consisted of a nail on the back wall that was high up enough to deter mice from nesting in the roll was still an outhouse. Even an outhouse that displayed a laminated invitation to a Paris Review cocktail party and that had a bucket of lime in it to throw on what was gathering below to kill off any offensive odors was still an outhouse. 'What about January?' people would ask. You could feel the dread in their voices."
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9781584656074 | Univ Pr of New England, October 31, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: For nearly twenty-five years, poet Baron Wormser and his family lived in a house in Maine with no electricity or running water.
Paperback:
9781584657040 | Univ Pr of New England, April 30, 2008, cover price $19.95
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9780324182927 | South-Western Pub, June 1, 2003, cover price $70.95 | also contains A Life Lived Outdoors: Reflections of a Maine Sportsman
9780324183429 | South-Western Pub, July 1, 2002, cover price $55.01 | also contains Type 2 Diabetes in Teens: Secrets for Success
9780324182811 | 2 har/cdr edition (South-Western Pub, March 1, 2002), cover price $254.95
9780030210921 | Hardcover with CD edition (South-Western Pub, June 1, 2000), cover price $256.95 | also contains Prisoner of Ice: The Official Strategy Guide, Prisoner of Ice: The Official Strategy Guide
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9781428809871 | Academic Internet Pub Inc, October 31, 2006, cover price $29.95
9781428812789 | 3 edition (Academic Internet Pub Inc, October 31, 2006), cover price $34.95
9780324304183 | 3 signed edition (South-Western Pub, February 24, 2005), cover price $68.95
Product Description: A collection of contemporary writers, writing about Maine.
Hardcover:
9781571312860 | Milkweed Editions, April 1, 2004, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A collection of contemporary writers, writing about Maine.
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Hardcover:
9780415932103 | Routledge, February 1, 2002, cover price $146.00
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9780965442831 | About Time Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $12.95
Hardcover:
9780201622522 | Pressure Applications, November 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The naturalist recounts his experience spending a year isolated in a crudely built cabin, where he studied the surrounding wildlife and pondered life's questions
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9780201489392 | Da Capo Pr, November 7, 1995, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The naturalist recounts his experience spending a year isolated in a crudely built cabin, where he studied the surrounding wildlife and pondered life's questions
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780736648844 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, September 1, 1999), cover price $56.00
Paperback:
9780965442800 | About Time Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9780892722648 | Down East Books, March 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Book by Barrette, Roy
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9780892722358 | Down East Books, June 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Barrette, Roy
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9780528811104 | Book Sales, April 1, 1983, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: Essays discuss New England, the sea, the seasons, nature, and the joys of country life
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9780879235581, titled "A Countryman's Journal" | Reprint edition (David R Godine Pub, October 1, 1986), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss New England, the sea, the seasons, nature, and the joys of country life
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9780385143462 | Doubleday, November 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of new material from Salt, an organization devoted to documenting the culture of New England
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9780385143479 | Doubleday, November 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A collection of new material from Salt, an organization devoted to documenting the culture of New England
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9780385114233 | Doubleday, June 1, 1977, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Covering lobsters, maple syrup, stone walls, town meetings, snowshoes, fiddlehead ferns, and more, this collection of facts, lore, and interviews illuminates the traditional crafts and culture of New England
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