Adirondacks

Author : Carl Heilman II
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781599621531

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The Trails of the Adirondacks by Carl Heilman II Pdf

This official book published with the Adirondack Mountain Club celebrates America's original hiking destination through breathtaking contemporary photography, maps, rarely seen archival photos, and a text that brings the history of the trails to life. The Adirondack Park is home to the largest protected natural area in the lower 48 states--six million acres including more than 10,000 lakes, 30,000 miles of rivers and streams, and thousands of miles of hiking trails running from mountain summits through a wide variety of habitats including wetlands and old-growth forests. How better to view this wilderness than afoot on the many trails, many leading to some of the most picturesque summits in North America. There are trails for everyone in the Adirondacks. Today, thousands enjoy hiking, skiing, and snowshoeing trails to backcountry destinations all around the park while others aspire to climb all 46 peaks. Water trails include the historic Fulton Chain of Lakes, Raquette River, and Saranac River routes, in addition to more intimate paddles across wild lakes and waters that meander through towering mountains and verdant forests. Every season has its own charm, all portrayed here in this one of a kind volume of history and photography along Adirondack trails. This is a book for anyone who enjoys travelling through the Adirondack backcountry and includes unique and picturesque destinations throughout the Adirondack Park in addition to a comprehensive history on hiking in the Adirondacks. From the dramatic beauty of the Lake George Wild Forest, to numerous fire tower summits and open ledges and mountaintops scattered around the park, and the rugged splendor of the High Peaks and bucolic beauty of the Champlain Valley, this book covers it all.

Author : Harvey H. Kaiser
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 156792073X

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Great Camps of the Adirondacks by Harvey H. Kaiser Pdf

The author does a thorough job in explaining the beginnings of rustic architecture and why it has a permanent place in the culture. The mix of social background and the history of the early Adirondack camps provides a designers guidebook.

Author : Peter Bronski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781493009275

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At the Mercy of the Mountains by Peter Bronski Pdf

In the tradition of Eiger Dreams, In the Zone: Epic Survival Stories from the Mountaineering World, and Not Without Peril, comes a new book that examines the thrills and perils of outdoor adventure in the “East's greatest wilderness,” the Adirondacks.

Author : James Michael Ryan
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1584657499

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Adirondack Wildlife by James Michael Ryan Pdf

The first comprehensive field guide to the habitats and wildlife of the Adirondack State Park

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780847859160

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The Adirondacks by Anonim Pdf

A stunning tribute to one of America’s natural treasures in panoramic photographs of the Adirondack Park’s grand mountains, pristine woods, and picturesque waterways. Covering more ground than Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon combined, the Adirondack Park is one of the great wilderness areas in this country. This volume presents an all-new selection of images, with a focus on how the seasons transform the landscape: the tree-covered mountains in autumnal glory, rivers hushed by winter snow, verdant meadows alive with spring, wildlife such as bears and moose, as well as historic resorts and villages. Each chapter covers a different corner of the park, from Lake Placid and the High Peaks to Saranac Lake, Lake George, and the Fulton Chain. To appreciate the wonders of the Adirondacks through the lens of one of the area’s most accomplished photographers is like exploring them for the first time.

Author : William Gove
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0815607946

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Logging Railroads of the Adirondacks by William Gove Pdf

The period of 1890-1950 marked the romantic era of steam power as the rails reached deep into the old growth of the Adirondack woods to harvest the timber crop. In this volume, not only does William Gove provide an in-depth history of railroad activity in the Adirondacks he also describes the logging methods used, the role of railroads in the logging industry, and the influence of the railroads on the condition of the Adirondack forest today. In addition, he addresses the political and economic forces determining the location and viability of logging railroads, villages, and the forest industry.

Author : Adirondack Mountain Club Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996116842

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Views from on High by Adirondack Mountain Club Staff Pdf

Author : Bryant Franklin Tolles
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1584650966

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Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks by Bryant Franklin Tolles Pdf

An architectural study of the large Adirondack hotels that focuses on the cultural history of travel and tourism.

Author : Phil Brown
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781563525056

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Longstreet Highroad Guide to the New York Adirondacks by Phil Brown Pdf

The indispensable guide to the best the New York Adirondacks have to offer.

Author : David R. Starbuck
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512602630

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Archeology in the Adirondacks by David R. Starbuck Pdf

While numerous books have been written about the great camps, hiking trails, and wildlife of the Adirondacks, noted anthropologist David R. Starbuck offers the only archeological guide to a region long overlooked by archeologists who thought that "all the best sites" were elsewhere. This beautifully illustrated volume focuses on the rich and varied material culture brought to the mountains by their original Native American inhabitants, along with subsequent settlements created by soldiers, farmers, industrialists, workers, and tourists. Starbuck examines Native American sites on Lake George and Long Lake; military and underwater sites throughout the Lake George, Fort Ticonderoga, and Crown Point regions; old industrial sites where forges, tanneries, and mines once thrived; farms and the rural landscape; and many other sites, including the abandoned Frontier Town theme park, the ghost town of Adirondac, Civilian Conservation Corps camps, ski areas, and graveyards.

Author : Seneca Ray Stoddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Adirondack Mountains
ISBN : PRNC:32101049837626

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The Adirondacks by Seneca Ray Stoddard Pdf

Author : Gary A. Randorf
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801869536

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The Adirondacks by Gary A. Randorf Pdf

One hundred full-color photographs illustrate this history and current health of upstate New York's Adirondack Park, the first private-public partnership dedicated to the protection of a U.S. wilderness area. "Here is the first lesson about the Adirondacks, captured in Gary Randorf's magnificent photos. It is not only alpine granite—in fact, of the park's six million acres, only about eighty-five, scattered on top of the tallest mountains, are that gorgeous pseudo-Arctic. Aside from the touristed High Peaks, the Adirondacks comprise millions upon millions of acres of Low Peaks, of beavery draws and bearish woods, of hills and hills and hills, countless drainages and muddy ponds . . . The second point about the Adirondacks, a glory carefully revealed in the words and pictures of this book, is that it represents a second-chance wilderness and, as such, a hope that the damage caused by human beings is not irreversible. It is metaphor as much as place."—from the foreword by Bill McKibben In The Adirondacks: Wild Island of Hope, Gary A. Randorf offers 100 photographs to illustrate this unique, comprehensive history and natural history of the Adirondack Park, the first private-public partnership in the United States dedicated to the protection of a wilderness area. Situated in northeast New York, this regional park of six million acres represents a unique blend of public wildlands intermixed with commercial forests, farms, mines, private parks, prisons, scattered homes, dozens of villages, and a year-round population of 130,000. The ongoing attempts over the last century to make the Adirondacks a park have made this region a "striving ground" for living with the land, rather than outside or above it. Much of the strife is over finding a right relationship to the land, treating it not as a commodity to be exploited but as a community to which all living things belong and upon which all depend. Today, the Adirondacks regional park with its six million acres "represents a second-chance wilderness"—as Bill McKibben writes in his foreword to this book. The concerns of this park are the same concerns that apply to all of America's parks, recreational areas, and wildernesses with the addition of how to maintain the fragile peace between human and natural communities. How that "second-chance" can be realized is the focus of Gary Randorf's text and stunning color photographs.

Author : Paul Schneider
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250135209

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The Adirondacks by Paul Schneider Pdf

His book is a romance, a story of first love between Americans and a thing they call "wilderness." For it was in the Adirondacks that masses of non-Native Americans first learned to cherish the wilderness as a place of recreation and solace. In this lyrical narrative history, the author reveals that the affair between Americans and the Adirondacks was by no means one of love at first sight. And even now, Schneider shows that Americans' relationship with the glorious mountains and rivers of the Adirondacks continues to change. As in every good romance, nothing is as simple as it appears.

Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439611685

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The Adirondacks by Donald R. Williams Pdf

The East's greatest wilderness, the Adirondack region of New York State, shares its history and lore with Native Americans, early settlers, artists, writers, sportsmen, professors, and others. The Adirondacks are known to outdoor lovers, skiers, and year-round visitors for their forty-six high peaks, one-hundred-mile canoe route, one-hundred-thirty-three-mile Northville-to-Lake Placid Trail, thirty thousand miles of mountain streams, and three thousand lakes. The Adirondacks: 1830-1930, tells how the region was first "discovered," explored, and preserved as the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, the largest park in the contiguous United States, a patchwork of public and private lands governed by one of the largest regional zoning plans in the country. With more than two hundred stunning photographs and fascinating tales of the region, it traces the development of the hamlets, the great camps, the guides, and the furniture and tanning businesses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117220934

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The Adirondacks by Anonim Pdf