Maine Lakes

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Description

“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It’s the earth’s eye, having a look into which we measure the depth of our own nature,” wrote Thoreau. Generations of Americans have enjoyed, celebrated, and been rejuvenated by Maine’s lakes—our densely forested, lake-speckled state accommodates over 6,000 bodies of water larger than one acre, 2,800 of which can be designated “great ponds.”

With luminous color photographs, thoughtful essays, and a sprinkling of quotes, Maine Lakes invites you to revisit your freshwater childhood memories, to realize the wonder and recreation our lakes offer, and to be told what’s being done to preserve this valuable and precious resource. Steeped in reflections of Barnes’s and Bright’s own personal experiences, Maine Lakes, in images and words, touches on what is universally remarkable about our human interaction with the landscape: it must be tenderly stewarded even as, on the same time, it sustains and heals us.


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