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The founding partners of Book Orchard Publishing come from different backgrounds and different countries, but have one goal in common— to produce books of excellent quality and exceptional workmanship that emphasize the important role animals and the environment have in our lives.

We hope to bring people back to the pastime of reading for pleasure and in the process, educate, entertain and enrich a person’s life.

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Sales Dept. Book Orchard Press Inc.
PO Box 500 Georgetown, ME 04548
Phone: 1-207-371-2665. Fax: 1-207-371-2771
Email: phil@bookorchard.com

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Book Orchard welcomes all completed manuscripts dealing with travel or human/animal relationships. Your work should be formatted as a Adobe .pdf, Adobe InDesign .indd, or Microsoft Word .doc (electronic submissions of excerpts are the preferred method). Materials submitted by post will not be returned unless a self addressed stamped envelope is provided. Book Orchard encourages the author to be involved in all aspects of the book production, not just the content of the pages, but in the jacket design, layout, font type, photograph/illustration selection, and marketing. In return, we remunerate our authors with a slightly larger percentage than other publishing houses. We look forward to reviewing your work.

Their book "World Voyagers" ($29.95, Book Orchard Press, April 2007) began as a series of weekly blogs on www.worldvoyagers.com about the journey before being collected into a 432-page hardcover version.
Wood outfitted the boat as a small animal hospital, neutering and spaying animals in areas without vets as well as caring for injured wildlife encountered along the way.Eschewing the typical travel guide style of describing "destination hot spots" in favor of dialogue with locals and her travel companions. Wood engages the reader in her personal accounts through such locations as the Bahamas, Galapagos, Fiji and Capetown. In Port Antonio, she describes a dish typically served at Jamaican weddings: "Apparently a real head was removed from a real goat, smashed up with a lead pipe and then all the parts were put in a big pot along with some other choice tidbits, including the cloven hooves and intestines."
The book is illustrated with some of Wood's paintings and 32 color pages of photos along with original cartoons, maps and poems. At the end is Wood's glossary of terms found in the book, although she cautions: "Some old salts may dissagree with my definitions -- tough toerails, I'm not changing anything!"

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