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NON-FICTIONNew!Rime of the Ancient UnderwriterHow I Stowed the Day Job and Went to SeaJim SalmonIllustrations by Jan Mercuri GrossmanWe all have those days when we think to ourselves: “I wish I could just get away from it all.” Jim Salmon did much more than think these words in 2000 when he left his job as an insurance underwriter and embarked on a nineteen- month trip around the world. Rime of the Ancient Underwriter is his humorous and engaging personal account of the journey on board the Picton Castle, out of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The world voyage was the subject of a popular, sixteen-part series on Canadian cable television called Tall Ship Chronicles.isbn 978-0-9845921-4-2 Paperback, 288 pages $18.95Seeking ParmenterA Memoir of PlaceCharles ButterfieldAn older man, fit enough to tramp over the family farm he knew as a boy, returns to probe what remains of the place where he worked and played, and to study the changes that are occurring on the land since it began its return to wildness sixty yearsago. Artifacts and memories merge in this reflective, personal history of a landcape in south-central New Hampshire.Charles Butterfield leads a literary field trip through the diverse habitats emerging on the centuries-old farm, sprinkling insights from American prose and poetry as readers wend their way to the conclusion that there is much to gain from an appreciation of wildness.isbn 978-1939449-10-8 Paperback, 156 pages $15.9516 • WWW.HOBBLEBUSH.COM info@hobblebush.com