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Author : Brian M. Freed
Publisher : Author House
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496923783
"A teenage love triangle is the catalyst for murder in this mystery set against the backdrop of the Adirondack wilderness"--Back cover.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924101545378
Author : Carl Heilman II
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781599621531
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 : Elizabeth Folwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Adirondack Mountains Region (N.Y.)
ISBN : 0922595380
No bookshelf is complete without this new collection of timeless observations of Adirondack nature, community and history.
Author : Edward Kanze
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438454153
Probes deeply into Adirondack Mountain lives, both human and otherwise, bringing the area to vivid and colorful life. Winner of the 2015 Adirondack Literary Award for Best Memoir presented by the Adirondack Center for Writing Born just north of New York City, Edward Kanze traveled as far as the wilds of Australia and New Zealand, working as a naturalist, park ranger, and nature writer, before finally settling in New York’s Adirondacks for the riskiest of all life’s adventures: marriage and children. Adirondack tells the story of how he and his wife, Debbie, bought a tumbledown house, rescued it from ruin, started a family, and planted themselves deep in Adirondack soil. Along the way, he brings the unique history of this area to life by sharing stories of his ancestors, who have lived there for generations, and by offering captivating descriptions of the world around him. A keen observer, Kanze will charm readers with his tales of bears, birds, and fluorescent mice. Edward Kanze is a naturalist and licensed Adirondack guide. He has written extensively for various magazines and newspapers and is the author of several books, including Kangaroo Dreaming: An Australian Wildlife Odyssey.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924101499337
Author : Brian M. Freed
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496923332
"Grand in scope but intimate in its execution. A powerful, quintessentially American work from a debut writer whose skills extend far beyond his experience." -Kirkus Reviews
Author : William Henry Harrison Murray,Harry Fenn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:HWHKQF
Adventures in the Wilderness, Or, Camp-Life in the Adirondacks by Harry Fenn, first published in 1869, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : gail huntley
Publisher : Tweed River Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736766104
Gail Huntley fuses the two themes of perseverance and passion to continue the saga of the settlers and their children trying to survive in a harsh but beautiful environment in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. She explores relationships of real people, such as Mitchel Sabattis, Mary Ann Keller, and Wright Rule. Revenge, disease, love, and forgiveness seep through the hearts of these settlers and their children. Follow the Dodds and Scott families, originally from Scotland, as they put down roots and journey back and forth between the rugged Adirondacks Mountains and the rolling St. Lawrence County plains. Meet the shunned and the shunners, the robbers and the robbed, and the people of the woods struggling to survive another winter in this wild wilderness called the Adirondacks. Meet Ebeneezer Bowen, the hermit, Joel Plumley, Mary Ann Keller, Mitchel Sabattis, and Uncle Wright, the horse thief. Join the skilled woodsmen and women of the Adirondacks and the farmers who settled on the St Lawrence.
Author : Neal Burdick,Maurice Kenny
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625845702
The Adirondacks have been written about since they were first spied by Europeans more than five hundred years ago. Yet for most of the intervening centuries, few of those writers lived in the region of which they wrote--they were not part of the landscape. That has changed in recent years as writers have moved to the Adirondacks and formed a literary community. Perhaps inspired by these writers, longtime residents have discovered that they, too, could be part of such a community. From scratching out a living in the harsh landscape to the wonders of a moonlit cross-country ski, these writers celebrate life in the Adirondacks. In this remarkable collection of essays, the experiences of Adirondack natives are interwoven with the land in a part of America that is both demanding and rewarding.
Author : Christine Jerome
Publisher : Breakaway Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A paddling classic back in print with new maps, photos, details, and afterword. Christine Jerome walked into the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, NY, and promptly fell in love with a 9-foot, 10½-pound canoe named the Sairy Gamp. More than a century before, in 1883, the Sairy Gamp had been paddled and portaged through the Adirondacks by a sixty-one-year-old writer named George Washington Sears (his pen name was Nessmuk). The more Jerome learned about Sears, the more she wanted to follow his route, despite her lack of camping or canoeing experience. In August 1990 she embarked in a 9-foot canoe made of Kevlar and, with her husband, John, accompanying her in a slightly larger boat, set off to retrace Sears’s journey. An Adirondack Passage is part social history, part natural history, part biography of Sears, and part chronicle of a voyage. Summer turns to fall while the Jeromes make their way north, through sunshine and storms, down cottage-lined lakes and lonely wild streams. Gusting winds bully their light canoes and by mid-September the days are colder and shorter; but the longer they paddle, the more attached they become to the beauty around them. Canada geese fly overhead, monarch butterflies flutter southward, and on the larger lakes, young loons gather for their first migration to the sea. Along the way the author pauses to tell us what Sears saw when he passed by, and what happened to his favorite haunts in the ensuing century. As the history of the region unfolds we meet hermits and millionaires, hunting guides and society women, hotelkeepers and dime-novel writers, and one lost dancing bear. Christine Jerome has given us a memorable wilderness experience that readers who have never lifted a paddle will find fascinating and invigorating. This new release from Breakaway Books is the third edition, revised and updated with extra photos, maps, and a new afterword. PRAISE FOR AN ADIRONDACK PASSAGE “A fine piece of work and a great delight. ” —John McPhee “An enchanting record of a canoe trip.” —The New Yorker “A writer of fine and watertight prose. . . . An Adirondack Passage is uncategorizable—at once history, naturalism, sociology, and a love story—but unfailingly graceful.” —Boston Globe “Personal, witty, and thoughtful—one of the best introductions to the area ever produced.” —Audubon “As refreshing a break from the busyness of life as I’ve come across in awhile.” —Newsday “The writing . . . is a constant pleasure. Jerome has a style that suits her subject, quiet and gentle as a paddle in still water. She delivers her lore with wit and whimsy, with fine descriptions and without shrill preaching or righteous posturing.” —Smithsonian “The closest thing to a national nonfiction best-seller that the region has seen in ages, and deservedly so.” —Adirondack Life “A captivating account. . . . She takes us into a world of hermits and millionaires, of wild streams and glorious mountain scenery.” —Publishers Weekly “A delightful tale. . . . An informative, readable adventure whose history and environmental lessons are taught well.” —Library Journal
Author : Peter Bronski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781493009275
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 : Harvey L. Dunham
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789123197
Although numerous books have been written about the Adirondacks and Adirondackers, not very many have become regional classics. Early authors such as John Todd, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Jeptha R. Simms, S. H. Hammond, J. T. Headly, Alfred B. Street, William H.H. Murray and Verplanck Colvin earned well-deserved popularity in their day and their literary output still exerts a potent appeal more than a century later. One more volume is eminently entitled to consideration as top-bracket upstate literature...and that is Adirondack French Louie by the late Harvey L. Dunham of Utica.
Author : Thomas A. Gates
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738535249
The lakes of the Adirondack region are explored in this superb collection of masterful images, most of which are previously unpublished. The photographs in Adirondack Lakes were taken by well-known and lesser-known photographers of the region, including Seneca Ray Stoddard, George W. Baldwin, H. T. Hull, Katherine E. McClellan, William Kollecker, William L. Distin, and Henry M. Beach. Dating from 1858 to 1948, they are clear, focused, visually engaging, and historically significant. They show the men and women who developed the Adirondacks, from monied entrepreneurs to manual laborers, from hoteliers to roadside attendants, from vacationers to year-round residents-a cast of characters reflecting nearly a century of Adirondack activity.
Author : Fran Yardley
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438470528
An evocative and personal history of a unique historic place in the Adirondacks. In 1968 Fran and Jay Yardley, a young couple with pioneering spirit, moved to a remote corner of the Adirondacks to revive the long-abandoned but historic Bartlett Carry Club, with its one thousand acres and thirty-seven buildings. The Saranac Lakearea property had been in Jays family for generations, and his dream was to restore this summer resort to support himself and, eventually, a growing family. Fran chronicles their journey and, along the way, unearths the history of those who came before, from the 1800s to the present. Offering an evocative glimpse into the past, Finding True North traces the challenges and transformations of one of the worlds most beautiful, least-celebrated places and the people who were tirelessly devoted to it. Fran Yardley is a superb storyteller, and this is a superb storyof a camp and of a marriage, illuminating a key corner of the slightly out-of-time paradise that is the Adirondacks. Bill McKibben, author of Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance Fran Yardley has given us an emotionally moving book, combining memoir and Adirondack history. With a singular and powerful voice, in a tightly organized narrative, she deftly weaves together two distinct strands: her own remarkable story and the history of Bartletts Carry. Philip Terrie, author of Seeing the Forest: Reviews, Musings, and Opinions from an Adirondack Historian Fran Yardleystoryteller, actress, writer, and stalwart Adirondackertakes us behind the balsam curtain to a truly magical place on the Saranac Lakes. Finding True North is the tale of families, forests, tragedy, and triumph told from the heart with deep insight. Its a terrific, immersive read. Elizabeth Folwell, editor-at-large, Adirondack Life Gifted storyteller Fran Yardley has harnessed her many voices to the printed page in this remarkable memoir. Yardley interweaves her firsthand experience hinged to historic documentation with her imagination as she reveals the lives and ways of those who went before and coexisted with her and Jay Yardley at Bartlett Carry. Finding True North is a must-read love story about Adirondack place and people. Caroline M. Welsh, Director Emerita, Adirondack Museum In Finding True North, Fran Yardley has produced an immediate and necessary addition to the body of Adirondack literature and history. Long in the making, it is beautifully written, authoritative, and moving. Christopher Shaw, author of Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip with the Gods and former editor of Adirondack Life Author and master storyteller Fran Yardley tells of the early history of the aquatic Adirondack crossroads known as Bartlett Carry, the later history of the place as a club for families eager to swap conventional orbits outside the mountains for the natural world within, and the reinvention of the place by the author and her visionary late husband, Jay. The stories that flow together here touch the heart and bring the reader to tears and laughter. For lovers of the Adirondacks and particularly for those keen on understanding how the past shapes the present and the future, this is a must read. Ed Kanze, author of Adirondack: Life and Wildlife in the Wild, Wild East