Title: Maine's golden road
First published: 1995
Description: Maine's Golden Road is a remarkable memoir of the annual vacation author John Gould took for thirty-two consecutive summers with his daughter's father-in-law, Bill Dornbusch. Affectionately named "the Grandfathers' retreats," these sojourns into the depths of the Maine woods have inspired Gould's finest and most emotionally resonant writing to date.

With a naturalist's sensitivity to his environment, and an infectious sense of humor, Gould writes of beautiful hikes through dense forests, of fly fishing for salmon and trout in deserted creeks, of campside culinary triumphs, and of his and Bill's longstanding friendship and their rural vacation-inspired reflections on careers, family, and the modern world. The resulting book is a wonderful meditation on the natural beauty of the Maine woods as glimpsed through Gould's unique vision.
Subjects: Description and travel, Intellectual life, Travel, American Authors, Homes and haunts, Authors, American, Natural history, Biography, Thoreau, henry david, 1817-1862, Maine, description and travel, Natural history, united states
Places: Maine
People: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), John Gould (1908-)
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century
LC classification: PS3513.O852 Z4715 1995