March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 28m
English
L.L. Bean catalogs and stores have brought the Maine outdoors lifestyle to an audience around the world, without ever leaving home.
There really was a man named L.L. Bean: Leon Leonwood Bean. He started his company in 1912 to sell waterproof hunting boots. He was a hunter himself, so he knew what worked in the field. His brother had a clothing store in Freeport Corner, in Freeport, Maine, so L.L. used the basement to start his mail-order business. He quickly hit a setback: 90 of the first 100 pairs of his original production proved defective and were returned. He made good on the money-back guarantee for every pair. Then, he fixed the design and kept going.
Today, L.L. Bean ...
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