false 7980833 212079 106637 0967166233 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220706939m/106637.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220706939s/106637.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106637.The_Story_of_Mount_Desert_Island 2.75 4 This revised edition adds historical photographs and commentary by Morison's daughter, Emily Morison Beck, editor of Sailor Historian, an anthology of her father's work, and Gregory M. Pfitzer, an associate professor at Skidmore College and author of Samuel Eliot Morison's Historical World. But the text is vintage Morison.
Morison's breezy style captures the high points of the island's glorious history and touches upon many of Morison's own passions: from the early Abnaki tribes to the great European explorers to the island residents and rusticators, of which Morison was one, owning "cottages" in both Northeast Harbor and Tremont.
The Story of Mount Desert Island is also colored by Morison's love of the sea. He spent a lifetime sailing the island's surrounding waters, exploring the outer islands and absorbing the sweeping beauty from the peaks of "l'isle des Monts-Deserts."

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