Stories from Where We Live

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"Evocative, moving, and a sheer joy to read. Stories from
Where We Live—The North Atlantic Coast is the first
collection of literature I've seen that successfully and
beautifully grounds you to a place of salt air, wind, and waves.
I look forward to sharing these stories with friends and family, as well
as using them in my work as an environmental educator."
—JAN KRETSER, Educational Programs Manager, Zoo New England
"This exquisite collection expands and illuminates our view of the
North Atlantic coastal experience. Children and adults alike will
revel in these writings, because they extol our complex and elegant
relationship to the weed in the sidewalk crack, the vast blue sea,
and the clouds that sail overhead."
—PRISCILLA HOWELL, Resource Librarian, Center for the Enhancement of
Science and Mathematics Education, Northeastern University
etting crabs on the New Jersey shore, ice-
boating in Maine, raking for quahogs at low tide
along Cape Cod, playing beneath... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"Evocative, moving, and a sheer joy to read. Stories from
Where We Live—The North Atlantic Coast is the first
collection of literature I've seen that successfully and
beautifully grounds you to a place of salt air, wind, and waves.
I look forward to sharing these stories with friends and family, as well
as using them in my work as an environmental educator."
—JAN KRETSER, Educational Programs Manager, Zoo New England
"This exquisite collection expands and illuminates our view of the
North Atlantic coastal experience. Children and adults alike will
revel in these writings, because they extol our complex and elegant
relationship to the weed in the sidewalk crack, the vast blue sea,
and the clouds that sail overhead."
—PRISCILLA HOWELL, Resource Librarian, Center for the Enhancement of
Science and Mathematics Education, Northeastern University
etting crabs on the New Jersey shore, ice-
boating in Maine, raking for quahogs at low tide
along Cape Cod, playing beneath majestic oak
trees in Bridgeport, Connecticut. These are
among the many encounters with nature and
place captured in Stories from Where We Live—
The North Atlantic Coast
For centuries, people have learned about the
animals, plants, and places around them from
stories passed from generation to generation.
This book, the first in a series that will cover the
ecoregions of North America, tells about life
along the ocean shore from Newfoundland to
Delaware through stories, poems, and excerpts
from journals and memoirs. With pieces both
historical and contemporary, the book invites
readers to feel the throb and pulse of the surf as
Helen Keller felt it, to track an otter through a
southern New Hampshire winter, and to join a
young boy as he tries to save a lobster from the
cooking pot.
A love of nature begins with stories. This book
connects readers with estuaries and cranberry
bogs, fishermen and Native Americans, stories of
adventure and great places and wild lives. It
inspires them to explore, observe,
ponder, and protect the place Vissza