A field guide to the Maine Coast: small town travel tips, interviews with poets, oyster farmers, and fishing guides; boatbuilding craft intel and literary history.

Inside Wildsam Maine Coast you'll find stories and legend from prize-winning writers, past and present: detailed road trip plans and profiles of idyllic towns; interviews with artists, oyster farms and bar owners; delightful ephemera from the archives, selective recommendations about authentic coastal Maine experiences, and a robust guide to boatbuilding tradition and practices.

Presented by L.L.Bean

L.L.Bean, much like Wildsam, is centered on getting people out to the wildest places, nearby and far-flung. They believe the more time you spend outside together, the better. That’s why they design products that make it easier to take longer walks, have deeper talks and never worry about the weather. It’s like their founder always said—being outside brings out the best in us. And the Maine Coast has a lot of rugged outside to explore.

Check them out at llbean.com.

"At a classic lobster shack, when the sun hits baywater and a lobster fleet or a schooner bobs offshore, generations of summer visitors sit there with you, taking it all in. Today’s Maine bows to none when it comes to life’s finer pleasures. Still, it’s Homer’s side of things–that collision of land and sea–that makes Maine not just a nice place but an invigorating land of mind and spirit."

128 pages 
Back-pocket size, 4 x 6.5 inches
Featuring more than a dozen local voices