Thistle Hill Publications

Northeast Passage

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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

Northeast Passage: A Photographer”s Journey Along the Historic Northern Forest Canoe Trail

A bronze medal IPPY Award winner and a finalist for a Benjamin Franklin Award.

112 pages, 114 color photographs, hardcover, $24.95

ISBN: 978-0-9705511-4-6

Dateline Vermont

admin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:49:31 +0000

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

A finalist for best regional book in ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year competition.

240 pages, hardcover, $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-9705511-3-4

Messages from a Small Town

admin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:09:20 +0000

Photographs Inside Pawlet, Vermont by Neil Rappaport

By Susanne Rappaport
with Nellie Bushee and Ella Clark

When renowned photographer Neil Rappaport died suddenly in 1998, he left behind thousands of images of Pawlet, Vermont, including those he called a “visual census” of the town. Here, his spouse Susanne has assembled some of the best of them and juxtaposed them with historical photographs of Pawlet to show how a small town changes and offer illumination to the rest of us.

A medalist in the IPPY Awards.

136 pages, 100 duotone photographs, softcover, $30.00

ISBN: 978-0-9167182-7-5

Untamed Vermont

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Extraordinary Wilderness Areas of the Green Mountain State

Photographs by A. Blake Gardner
Commentary by Tom Wessels

With his large-format camera tucked into a specially-equipped pack, Blake Gardner has tromped Vermont’s wilderness areas for more than a decade, chronicling their beauty in every season and all kinds of weather. He thus enables us to view vistas and sights few but ardent hikers have seen. Ecologist Tom Wessels adds his thoughts on the state’s natural history and the broad diversity of Vermont’s wilderness.

A finalist for a Benjamin Franklin Award and for a ForeWord magazine book-of-the-year award.

112 Pages, 65 full-color photographs, hardcover, $39.95

ISBN: 978-0-9705511-2-2
Distributed by University Press of New England

Granite & Cedar

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The People and the Land of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom

By John M. Miller
Short fiction by Howard Frank Mosher

An unusual collaboration between a documentary photographer and a writer of fiction to produce a haunting portrait of Vermont’s most rural areas. Miller’s austere black-and-white photos richly detail the erosion and the breakup of the small farms of the region and of the families who worked those farms. While the images emphasize the starkness of the land, they also pay homage to the innate beauty and fierce pride of the people who live in such hard-scrabble circumstances.

The regular edition is out of print, but the hand-bound, autographed, limited Collector’s Edition remains available from the Vermont Folk Life Center

108 pages, 68 duotone photographs, Limited Collector’s Edition, $200.00

ISBN: 978-0-9705511-1-5

Tranquil Vermont

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:54:42 +0000

The Pastels of Gaal Shepherd

The Green Mountain State seen through the eyes of one of its premier landscape painters. Gaal Shepherd also pens an essay about why she loves to paint Vermont’s verdant landscape, and how she does it.

A book-of-the-year of the Vermont Book Professionals Association.

48 pages, 26 full-color reproductions, hardcover, $29.95

ISBN: 978-0-9705511-0-8