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An award-winning landscape photographer, the late Clyde Smith, takes the reader on a virtual paddling tour, following age-old Native American and fur trapper trade routes for 740 miles from the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, through Vermont, Quebec, and New Hampshire, to the northernmost part of Maine. Northeast Passage was the last of Smith’s 21 books and the one he considered the capstone of his distinguished career.
by Clyde H. Smith
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A well-told tale of the shifting nature of politics in Vermont. Chris Graff, who was the state’s top political observer as head of the Associated Press Vermont Bureau for nearly 25 years, deftly weaves his own personal narrative into an explanation of how the state transformed itself from the nation’s most reliably Republican bastion into the land that regularly elects such independent liberal icons as Howard Dean, Jim Jeffords, Pat Leahy, and Bernie Sanders.
by Chris Graff
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