The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island
10 best books like The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island (Linda Greenlaw): The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean, Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass, The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters, Laura Ingalls Wilder: Young Pioneer (Childhood of Famous Americans), Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly, In Beauty May She Walk: Hiking the Appalachian Trail at 60, A Country Year: Living the Questions, An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect, A Year in the Maine Woods
| Author | Trevor Corson |
| ISBN | 0060555599 |
In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and aneccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning currents of the Gulf of Maine to learn about...
"Boat Girl" is the heart-breaking memoir of growing up aboard a sailboat. Throughout the 1980's and 90's, Melanie's family lived aboard a 47-foot sailboat, spending their summers along the US East Coast and their winters in the Bahamas. But the cruising life was not all fun in the sun. The family had...
It seemed like a good idea. Tired of everyday life ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a bird. What he found was the worst boat in the world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy Adventure, despite all that Farley and his Newfoundland helpers...
| Author | Derek Lundy |
| ISBN | 0385720009 |
"The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing--. Lundy tells a harrowing tale, as tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air."--San Francisco Chronicle
A chilling account of the world's most dangerous sailing race, the Vendée Globe,...
| Author | Beatrice Gormley |
| ISBN | 0689839243 |
This biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder gives a solid overview of the writer's life, but sometimes resembles her own novels a bit too much. The language is simple and easy to read, much like the Little House books, and there are details in the biography that did not appear in the heavily revised stories...
Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic Mountains,...
| Author | Leslie Mass |
| ISBN | 0976568608 |
In 2000, inspired by her father, Leslie Mass decided she would turn a lifelong fantasy into reality. At the age of 59, she began to train for a grueling journey, a thru-hike of the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail. 'In Beauty May She Walk' chronicles Leslie's struggles and triumphs during her hike. On the...
| Author | Sue Hubbell |
| ISBN | 0395967015 |
When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things that she cared about. The result is one of the best-loved...
| Author | Sharman Apt Russell |
| ISBN | 0465071600 |
Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0201489392 |
Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich’s dream was to focus on the riches of one small place—a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains. The year begins as he settles into a cabin with no running water and no electricity, built of hand-cut...
| Author | Helen Thomas |
| ISBN | 0743202260 |
In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller Front Row at the White House, the dean of the White House press corps presents a vivid and personal chronicle of the American presidency. Currently a columnist for Hearst and a former White House bureau chief for UPI, Helen Thomas has covered an astounding...
| Author | Spike Walker |
| ISBN | 0312089244 |
No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90-mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and super-human stretches...
| Author | Sig Hansen |
| ISBN | 0312591144 |
I think I like Sig Hansen even more after reading this book. This was chalked full of history of his family and the history of the Norwegians. It also gave back round on how crab fishing works.
Even though it wasn't as quirky or entertaining as the Time Bandit book this book held it's own story. I...
| Author | Bill McKibben |
| ISBN | 0452282705 |
My review published in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2001:
A Zig-Zag Path to Enlightenment
Reviewed by Steve Kettmann
LONG DISTANCE
A Year of Living Strenuously By Bill McKibben Simon & Schuster; 191 pages; $23 It's an idea that many of us have considered,...
| Author | Andy Hillstrand |
| ISBN | 0345503724 |
“Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware,” goes the chorus of an old sailors’ sing-along that celebrates the allure and danger of the seafaring life. But make no mistake–there truly is much to beware for those who are drawn to risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the...
| Author | Charles Kuralt |
| ISBN | 0449007405 |
"Read Kuralt's words and discover America with him."
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
He has entertained and informed us about ourselves on television for years. Taking to the highways, he has met the little-known and the famous, and shared them with the rest of us. This heartwarming book reminds...
| Author | Katy Lederer |
| ISBN | 1400052769 |
“The intricacies of family and the complexities of the games they play mingle wonderfully here in a memoir quite unlike any other.”—George Plimpton, author of Truman Capote
Katy Lederer grew up on the bucolic campus of an exclusive East Coast boarding school where her father taught...
| Author | George Burns |
| ISBN | 0091745764 |
Burns' career has spanned the history of modern show business, and here is the backstage story of the people who made that history. The reader gets the inside scoop on those who created and shaped show business--from Al Jolson and Jimmy Durante to Jack Benny and the Marx Brothers, All My Best Firends shows...
| Author | Sara Loewen |
| ISBN | 1602231982 |
For many the idea of living off the land is a romantic notion left to stories of olden days or wistful dreams at the office. But for Sara Loewen it becomes her way of life each summer as her family settles into their remote cabin on Uyak Bay for the height of salmon season. With this connection to thousands...
| Author | Colin Woodard |
| ISBN | 0143035347 |
“A thorough and engaging history of Maine’s rocky coast and its tough-minded people.”—Boston Herald
“[A] well-researched and well-written cultural and ecological history of stubborn perseverance.”—USA Today
For more than four hundred years the people of coastal...
| Author | Rick Bass |
| ISBN | 0618263020 |
One of Rick Bass's most widely respected works of natural history, The Ninemile Wolves follows the fate of a modern wolf pack, the first known group of wolves to attempt to settle in Montana outside protected national park territory. The wolf inspires hatred, affection, myth, fear, and pity; its return...
| Author | Scott Bishop |
| ISBN | 0615695358 |
A Soul’s Calling is a memoir about a man who listened to his heart instead of reason.
Scott, a forty-something attorney, is average in every way except one. He has a connection to the Other Side. He speaks to Spirit and Spirit speaks to him. He sees, hears, and interacts with an invisible realm...
