Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park are the crowning points of the coast of Maine. Millions of visitors are drawn each year to the stunning beauty of their spruce-fir forests and granite islands, Some, like acclaimed nature writer Christopher Camuto, never stop coming back.<BR><BR>In Time and Tide in Acadia Camuto draws on his years of walking Mount Desert's summits and shorelines, canoeing its marshes, kayaking its tidal waters, and visiting its outer islands. He observes wildlife and landscape with considerable originality; his interest in exploring the psychological and philosophical appeal of nature is genuine; and he generously portrays the rich history of the island as well as the indigenous people and their perceptions of nature and the elements.<BR><BR>As in his previous, highly praised books, Camuto fulfills his promise to give innumerable vantage points on the nature of a remarkable place, leading us on an unforgettable grand tour of Acadia National Park.<BR><BR>Christopher Camuto, writer and naturalist, is the author of A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge, Another Country: Journeying toward the Cherokee Mountains, and Hunting from Home: A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He makes his home on a woodland farm in central Pennsylvania.<BR><BR>"With this precision portrait of Maine's Mount Desert Island, Chris Camuto looks past the popularly picturesque and delves into its elemental experience, proving himself once again a patient and achingly astute observer of nature, an eloquent educator, a reflective and unobtrusively knowledgeable companion for a quiet walk or paddle."---James R. Babb, editor, Gray's Sporting Journal<BR><BR>"[Camuto] is a unique combination of the insider looking out and the outsider looking in, a witness to creatures, scenes, and truths that require solitude, patience, and precision if they are to be glimpsed and communicated. His book in fact makes a superb guide for any visitor to Acadia: it tells you where to go, what to see, and, most rewardingly, how to see it. And every sentence of it conveys the powerful, complex magic of an original mind re-creating something we thought we knew."---Franklin Burroughs, author of Billy Watson's Croker Sack