* 2009 John Burroughs Medal for Best Nature Writing *
There are said to be only four places in the world where two major rivers--with entirely separate watersheds--converge at their mouths to form a common delta.
Three are famous, having loomed large in the histories and economies of their regions: the Sacramento, San Joaquin delta in California; Tigris, Euphrates delta in Iraq; and the Ganges, Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh. The fourth is Merrymeeting Bay in Maine. It is unfamiliar to most people, even within its immediate vicinity.
Frank Burroughs has lived and knocked around on Merrymeeting Bay for three decades, gaining a familiarity with its natural and human history--with its birds, fish, and mammals, and with the local people who know it best. His wonderfully fluid essays explore the ecology, environment, and activities in this unusual bay, as Heather Perry's beautiful photographs show us the details.
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"The confluence of two (wonderfully) creative energies in Heather Perry and Franklin Burroughs makes this book on Maine's unique Merrymeeting Bay a journalistic treasure. Frank Burroughs' stories about the bay and its people are insightful, profound, and interesting -as well as enlarging. Heather Perry's photographs are hard won and delicious, taken over many years. No one I know has photographed the American eel as has Heather Perry." Bill Curtsiner, author/photographer of "Extreme Nature" and other books, and "National Geographic" photographer.
Burroughs, a Georgetown native, taught English Literature at Bowdoin College from 1968-2002. He is the author of two books, and his essays have appeared in a variety of literary quarterlies and have been reprinted in such collections as Best American Essays, The Pushcart Anthology and The Norton Anthology of Nature Writing.
Heather Perry is a photographer who loves being underwater. With a degree in biology, she is particularly interested in local marine and freshwater natural history subjects.
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