The Adirondacks

The Adirondacks PDF

Author: Paul Schneider

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1998-09-15

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780805059908

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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.

Contested Terrain

Contested Terrain PDF

Author: Philip G. Terrie

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780815605706

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This work shows how expectations about land use, combined with interactions with nature have defined the Adirondacks. Outlining the disputes for the control of the land, the author introduces the key players from the residents, landholders, to preservationists and developers.

The Adirondack Reader

The Adirondack Reader PDF

Author: Paul F. Jamieson

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 9781931951128

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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, 1879This 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.

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