The Edge of Maine

Download or read book The Edge of Maine written by Geoffrey Wolff and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sailor himself, Wolff celebrates the harbors, reaches, and coves of a cruising ground that's among the world's finest, and summons the maritime spirit of a region whose yards once dominated American shipbuilding, a tradition still observed both by craftsmen who preserve the art of wooden boatbuilding and by the crews of the Bath Iron Works, which outfits some of our Navy's most advanced ships. He also introduces such Mainers as the canny 19th-century entrepreneur whose business cutting ice from the frozen Kennebec River became a lucrative global industry."--BOOK JACKET.