Thistle Hill Publications » wilderness http://www.thistlehillpub.com Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:03:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Northeast Passage http://www.thistlehillpub.com/northeast-passage/ http://www.thistlehillpub.com/northeast-passage/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:40:13 +0000 admin http://www.thistlehillpub.com/?p=46 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

]]> http://www.thistlehillpub.com/northeast-passage/feed/ 0 Untamed Vermont http://www.thistlehillpub.com/untamed-vermont/ http://www.thistlehillpub.com/untamed-vermont/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:05:55 +0000 admin http://www.thistlehillpub.com/?p=36 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

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