Lost But Found
An Upcountry Life
Published on 15. October 2023
284 pages
978-1-68475-095-5 (ISBN)
Description
Robert Kimber has led a largely rural life as a farmer, writer, and woodsman. The essays gathered in this wide-ranging collection reflect a lifetime of adventures and misadventures. Kimber writes of canoeing and fishing, stubborn sheep and old tractors, and the joys of roaming the woods with his dog. Seasoned with a dash of wit and self-irony, this paean to the upcountry life is as fresh and bracing as it is affectionate.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
File size
1,75 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-68475-095-5 (9781684750955)
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12/2023
Down East Books,U.S.
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Person
Robert Kimber's work has appeared in Adubon, Country Journal, Down East, Field & Stream, Harrowsmith, Horticulture, Yankee, Northern Woodlands, and the Missouri Review. He is the author of the books, Upcountry, A Canoeist's Sketchbook, Made for the Country, and Living Wild and Domestic. He lives in Temple, Maine.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Sandy's Painting: A Preface
- Lost But Found
- Big Jim
- A Kitchen with a View
- A Fine Woodworker
- Meanders
- Deep Cold, Deep Snow, Decent Winter
- Sheep in the Parlor
- Trees and Dendrons
- Raising Rocks
- Citizen Scientists
- Bailey
- Baffling Beavers
- The Perfect Canoe
- Summer's Boomerang
- Rites of Spring
- Paddling with the Young Guys
- In the Interior
- The Great Garden Glut
- Comfortable Winter Camping
- Country Mice, City Mice
- A Slipping-Down Farm
- The Lawn
- The Table Manners of Birds
- Consolation Prizes
- Silent Nights
- The Ripeness of Deadwood
- The Ice Cutter's Song
- Three Tractors
- Larix Laricina
- Survey
- The One That Got Away
- The Weather
- Saint John Memories
- Our Butterfly Net
- A Legacy Maple
- A Dog's Life
- Remote Ponds, Wild Trout
- Northern Jungle
- String Fever
- Flummy
- Dish-Fed Retainers
- November Epiphany
- A Raspberry Diary
- A Tale of Tall Snows
- Firewood from the Sky
- Footwear
- Winning the Ice Out Prize
- Squirrel Brains
- A Visit Down Country
- A Mean Winter
- Sightseeing
- Porcupine Stew and Asparagus
- Our Drought
- Late-Summer Fishing
- A Chance at the Mythical Buck
- Awesome-A Local Hero
- Unexpected Gifts
- Of Wind, Water, and the Best of Friends
- Griff's Camp
- Of Skis, Moose, and Climate Change
- Clunker
- A Navigational Muddle
- Buying a New Fridge at Sixty-Five
- No Bugs
- Leaf-Peeping Season
- A Swiss Canoe Trip
- Rita's Memorial
- Asparagus
- The Tenacity of Trees
- Good Riddance
- My Topography as Autobiography
- Drury Pond: An Idyll
- Country Singing
- References
