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Author | : Paul Schaefer |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1997-07-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780815606314 |
Verplanck Colvin worked for twenty-eight years as the superintendent of the topographical survey of the Adirondack Mountains. This collection of essays compiled by Paul Schaefer examines Calvin's many perspectives on the Adirondacks. His writings demonstrate his vast knowledge and appreciation of the wilderness. Colvin has a poetic style that captures the true beauty of the outdoors.
Author | : Alfred Lee Donaldson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Paul Schneider |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 1998-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0805059903 |
This lyrical narrative history reveals how the love affair between Americans and the Adirondacks--America's first wilderness--has grown and changed over time. 40 photos.
Author | : Annie Stoltie |
Publisher | : The Countryman Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-07-24 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1682681092 |
The essential companion to the Adirondacks and beyond Returning in its eighth edition, this fully updated guide provides details of Adirondack Park’s history and geography, as well as the cultural, lodging, dining, and recreational opportunities that abound here and in its gateway cities (including Saratoga Springs and Glens Falls). Complete with reviews and recommendations from authors immersed in the region, detailed maps and gorgeous photography throughout, this is an invaluable guide for your next trip.
Author | : Melinda Mackesey |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781609494988 |
The natural wonder of the Adirondack Mountains in New York State can inspire the entire family. How high do the peaks stretch? What do kilns do? And what, exactly, is a "yarn"? Educator Melinda Mackesey answers these and other questions through stories, fun facts and seven exciting activities about the plants, animals, places and faces that are uniquely Adirondack. Book jacket.
Author | : Russell Mack Little Carson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Donald R. Williams |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738510941 |
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 | : Jane Eblen Keller |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1980-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815601500 |
Greater in area than Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Olympic, Yellowstone, and Glacier national parks combined, New York State's Adirondack Park is the largest public park in the nation. A land of contrasts and paradoxes, loved, feared, exploited, protected, argued over, eulogized, and affected for better or worse by the hand of man for more than 300 years, the Adirondack forests, rivers, lakes, and peaks attract nearly 9 million visitors a year. From the geologic origins and glacial scouring of the region, to Indians, early settlers, and the logging, mining, and tourist industries, Jane Eblen Keller unfolds the dramatic history of the Adirondacks and the men and women who tried to tame the wilderness. The author also recounts how man and nature have interacted with each other in the region, indeed, how our American attitude toward nature shaped Adirondack history. This is a highly readable and amusing introduction to both Adirondack and conservation literature.
Author | : Donald R. Williams |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738591696 |
Archival photographs and text describe the history, social life and customs of the Adriondack Mountain region in New York.
Author | : Gary A. Randorf |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2002-07-29 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780801869532 |
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.