Mary Peters Author:Mary Ellen Chase Follow the life of the strong and independent Mary Peters from her adventurous life at sea with her family at age nine to her later years as she comes to terms with the hometown that is almost unrecognizable from the vibrant seafaring town it once was. Mary Peters is filled with romance and delightful descriptions of life and residents Down East... more » a century ago. Mary Peters is the first of Chase's highly acclaimed and bestselling Maine novels, capturing in vivid, compelling detail and historical accuracy a period of transition and turmoil along the coast of Maine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The novel is filled with wonderful details of the natural world, both at sea and on land. It also captures the pervasive changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution as coastal people stood on the brink of a new world, slowly turning from the glorious era of sail to serving the incoming tide of wealthy summer vacationers.« less