Lobster Shacks: A Road-Trip Guide to New England's Best Lobster Joints

by Mike Urban

Overview

The newly updated tour of New England's best roadside seafood

Lobster Shacks is a fun, road-trip-style guide to the 75 or so best shacks in New England, starting in Connecticut and heading north and east through Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. Each shack entry features a lively description which includes historical background, biographical portraits of the owners past and present, highlights from the menu, and driving directions. Scattered throughout the guide you will find feature recipes, lobster shack legends and lore, and information on local fishing fleets. Author Mike Urban is a veteran shack aficionado with years of experience searching for the best shacks and he hit the road again in 2015 to update this new edition. In short, whatever fits the lobster shack zeitgeist and spirit will find its way into this unique guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581573961
Publisher:	Countryman Press, The
Publication date:	05/24/2016
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	1,091,145
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Mike Urban is an editor, writer, and book packager who specializes in travel, outdoor recreation, sports, food, and business/career books. He has been in book publishing for over thirty years, last serving as Vice President and Associate Publisher of Globe Pequot Press, where he edited hundreds of travel guides and created a plethora of guidebook series. Urban lives in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, with his wife and four children.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Connecticut and Rhode Island Shacks 12

Cape Cod Shacks 50

North Shore and New Hampshire Shacks 80

Southern Maine Shacks 108

Midcoast Maine: Boothbay Harbor Area Shacks 142

Midcoast Maine: Penobscot Bay Area Shacks 168

Acadia and Down East Maine Shacks 190

Acknowledgements 218

Lobster Shacks by Type 219

Index 222