' Here at lasts a book that captures the sweep of Maine culture, from a dazzled vision of the first European explorers to the modern wit of Carolyn Chute. All of the great figures who have sprung from Maine,to written about it, are Longfellow, Thoreau, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sinclair Lewis, Rockwell Kent, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.B. White, John McPhee, and others.....' from the back cover, quoted in part.
