{"product_id":"apples-on-the-nashwaak-neil-sampson-9781988299259","title":"Apples on the Nashwaak","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eApples on the Nashwaak \u003c\/strong\u003etells the stories of five generations of Irish families who called this place \"home\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e... a gravel road climbs to a fifty-acre field, to where blankets of paintbrush blend into sky. The Nashwaak River Valley runs far below.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe field lies deserted now, abandoned to wild roses and raspberries. Rock piles--150-year heaps--half submerged in the treeline, icebergs of the understorey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e... a straggle of old apple trees ... all that's left of a life long gone--house, barn, paddocks and sheds; gardens behind fences of cedar rail and stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI come here to run my dogs ... an open door to the wild, it stirs the wolf in their blood.\u003cbr\u003e This field, these woodland trails ... walk them; go deep. Though feet lose their way, the mind finds the path to a settled place. The soul inhales, quiets, soars; begins to nestle in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...what follows is free flow, a river on the run. Facts carried, facts buried--trails of truth through a field of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-from the Preface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eApples on the Nashwaak\u003c\/em\u003e received the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick 2018 Alfred G. Bailey Award for poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neil Sampson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 198829925X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781988299259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Chapel Street Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.24d","brand":"Neil Sampson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44129762115839,"sku":"9781988299259","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e5fc0405-e992-41e6-9fc8-0be07c799fbd.jpg?v=1687465667","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/apples-on-the-nashwaak-neil-sampson-9781988299259","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}