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Long before it appeared on any map as the Baker River, it had a name: Asquamchumaukee — ‘Place of Mountain Waters.’ In this luminous 2014 volume, writer, photographer, and former New Hampshire state senator Wayne King offers a photographic ramble through the White Mountains valley he loves.
Pairing stunning images with reflections on nature, history, and stewardship, King traces the river from its mountain sources through the forests and towns it shaped. It is part natural history, part love letter, part call to care for wild places.
For nature lovers, photographers, and New Englanders — a river, beautifully remembered. King’s photographs — mist on the water, light through the trees — are worth the price alone, but his reflections on conservation and change give the book weight. A former state senator, he writes with authority about what wild places need from us. New England nature writing at its finest.
Long before it appeared on any map as the Baker River, the waterway winding through New Hampshire’s White Mountains had a name: Asquamchumaukee — ‘Place of Mountain Waters.’ In this luminous 2014 volume, writer, photographer, and former New Hampshire state senator Wayne King offers a photographic ramble through the valley he loves, pairing stunning images with reflections on nature, history, and seeing.
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nPart coffee-table book, part meditation, Asquamchumaukee is King’s tribute to a landscape of waterfalls, forests, and mountain light — and to the art of paying attention. His ‘mindscape’ photography seeks not just to document the Baker River Valley but to capture its spirit: the way water and woods hold memory, and how a place can shape the people who wander through it.
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nFor nature lovers, New Hampshire devotees, photographers, and anyone who has ever felt restored by wild water and quiet woods, this is a beautiful keepsake — a reminder to slow down, look closely, and let a landscape speak.
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