The Adirondack Reader Hardcover

Bys: Adirondack Mountain Club, Paul Jamieson - Editor, Neal Burdick - Editor

Book Overview

The Adirondack Reader has become almost as much of an institution as its original editor, Paul Jamieson, who died in 2006 at the age of 103. --Christopher Angus, Few fully understand what the Adirondack wilderness really is. It is a mystery even to those who have crossed and recrossed it by boats along its avenues the lakes; and on foot through its vast and silent recesses....Though the woodman may pass his lifetime in some section of the wilderness, it is still a mystery to him. --Verplanck Colvin, 1879 This is a book about what Americans have sensed, felt, and thought about our nation s basic heritage of wilderness, the heritage that makes us unique among modern nations. Out of the woods we came, and to the woods we must return, at frequent intervals, if we are to redeem ourselves from the vanities of civilization.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931951128
• ISBN13: 9781931951128
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Adirondack Mountain Club
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Anthology of Short Stories on the Beautiful People, and Nature, in the Adirondack Region; a Book for

This books is a beautiful, entertaining and informative book about the nature in and around the Adirondack Region. An anthology of historical short stories, very readable. Keep this book in your parlor, you and your guests will love the book. A real tribute to the beauty of the nature, and the people that live and work in the Adirondack Region...both are unbelievably beautiful. You will love this book.