{"title":"Books by Mary Ellen Chase","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"silas-crockett","title":"Silas Crockett","description":"\u003cp\u003eSilas Crockett traces life on the Maine coast through four generations of a seafaring family. This is a one-hundred-year epic filled with vibrant descriptions of the sweeping cultural, economic, and philosophical changes that washed over Maine. Mary Ellen Chase weaves wonderful historical detail with engaging characters so readers understand what it was like for a young wife to join her husband on a months-long trade voyage in 1830, and for a man raised in the tradition of seafaring forced to choose between leaving home for a long voyage or undertaking a risky, but shorter and more lucrative one. Chase draws her characters sharply and provides a voice to the everyday concerns and cares of people who lived and died by the sea. Written in 1935, Silas Crockett remains an important piece of literature for anyone who wishes to understand the rich maritime history of Maine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Islandport Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53391193276689,"sku":"9780967166223","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/6890\/3185\/files\/cover_c0836ce1-c5cf-4b7d-9cc1-e3ebca5f4212.jpeg?v=1776863043"},{"product_id":"windswept","title":"Windswept","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe third of Mary Ellen Chase's Maine novels (following Mary Peters and Silas Crockett), Windswept is the romantic and tumultuous saga of a Maine family who makes its home Down East. Spanning six decades, starting in the late nineteenth century, the novel depicts their lives as they meet head on the joys and challenges of the changing and encroaching world and eventually, World War II. Through it all, their home provides the family with a safe haven in which to sink their roots as they strive to nurture their humanity and spirituality, all the while surrounded by the natural beauty of the Maine coast. Windswept was a national bestseller and the biggest seller of Chase's career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Islandport Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53391195177233,"sku":"9780976323167","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/6890\/3185\/files\/cover_6bf8e3fe-c6b8-4e27-b216-7f6a31e30408.jpeg?v=1776863045"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.stablebookgroup.com\/collections\/books-by-mary-ellen-chase.oembed","provider":"Stable Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}