A Compelling and Surprising Page-turnerThe history of the ubiquitous pine tree is wrapped up with the history of early America—and in the hands of a gifted storyteller becomes a compelling read, almost an adventure story.
Bestselling Maine author Andrew Vietze has been called "an excellent New England historian" by the Kennebec Journal and has won several awards for his history writing. The former Managing Editor of Down East: The Magazine of Maine, he's the author of six books, including Boon Island and Becoming Teddy Roosevelt, both of which were regional bestsellers, won Independent Publisher Book Awards, and were finalists for Book of the Year Awards (ForeWord Reviews). Becoming Teddy Roosevelt was also honored by decree of the Maine State Legislature as an example of what Maine writing should be and has become part of a conservation program for middle schoolers at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (called the nation's best public garden by TripAdvisor); Boon Island was called "a maritime whodunit rife with twist and turns and high drama" by Publishers Weekly and "superb. . . both well-researched history and a page-turning mystery that begs to be a motion picture" by the Portsmouth Herald. The book has attracted much attention from Hollywood and was featured on the Travel Channel show, Monumental Mysteries, in January of 2014.As a journalist, Vietze has won awards for history writing from the International Regional Magazine Association. His work has appeared in a wide array of print and online publications, including: the New York Times' LifeWire, Time Out New York, Weather.com's "Forecast Earth," AMC Outdoors, Explore, Big Sky Journal, Crawdaddy!, Popmatters, Offshore, and the Maine Times, and he has twice won awards for history writing from the International Regional Magazine Association.A Registered Maine Guide, Andrew Vietze had a tree fort in a tall old pine during his childhood and used to walk from one to the next in the forest canopy twenty feet above the ground. He spends half the year working as a seasonal ranger in Baxter State Park, stationed at an old sporting camp called Twin Pines.
