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'A Paradise for Boys And Girls': Children's Camps in the Adirondacks

By: Hallie E. Bond, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Leslie Paris

Price: $27.98

Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd): June 2006

Seller ID: 181162

ISBN: 0815608225

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

For over a century children have spent their summers at "sleepaway" camps in the Adirondacks. These camps inspired vivid memories and created an enduring legacy that has come to be a uniquely American tradition. In "A Paradise for Boys and Girls": Children's Camps in the Adirondacks, a complement to the Adirondack museum exhibit of the same name, the authors explore the history of Adirondack children's camps, their influence on the lives of the campers, and their impact on the communities in which they exist. Drawing on the rich documentary and pictorial evidence gathered from the histories of...
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25 Ski Tours in Central New York

By: William P. Ehling

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Backcountry Pubns: January 1987

Seller ID: 189338

ISBN: 0942440358

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Bushwhacker's View of the Adirondacks

By: John E. Winkler, Neal S. Burdick

Price: $17.00

Publisher: North Country Books: May 1995

Seller ID: 189339

ISBN: 0925168378

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Adirondack Album, Vol. II

By: Barney Fowler

Price: $19.98

Publisher: North Country Books Inc: June 1980

Seller ID: 181163

ISBN: 0960555609

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Adirondack Detective III

By: John Briant

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Chalet Pub: May 2004

Seller ID: 194404

ISBN: 0964832747

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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Adirondack Explorations: Nature Writings of Verplanck Colvin

By: Verplanck Colvin, Paul Schaefer

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: July 1997

Seller ID: 189745

ISBN: 0815627327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

"(Colvin) changed the wreckage of devastated woodlands to marvelous lands healed by nature, with great forest and watershed values recovered; and as time goes on, rivers and lakes all continue to benefit from the original ideas that he proposed that would maintain forever the wild forest character of the Adirondack region". -- Paul Schaefer, from the ForewordVerplank Colvin worked twenty-eight years as the superintendent of the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Mountains. This collection of essays reveals his many perspectives on the Adirondack Mountains, one of the last great frontier...
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Adirondack Explorations: Nature Writings of Verplanck Colvin

By: Verplanck Colvin, Paul Schaefer

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: July 1997

Seller ID: 196939

ISBN: 0815627327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

"(Colvin) changed the wreckage of devastated woodlands to marvelous lands healed by nature, with great forest and watershed values recovered; and as time goes on, rivers and lakes all continue to benefit from the original ideas that he proposed that would maintain forever the wild forest character of the Adirondack region". -- Paul Schaefer, from the ForewordVerplank Colvin worked twenty-eight years as the superintendent of the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Mountains. This collection of essays reveals his many perspectives on the Adirondack Mountains, one of the last great frontier...
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Adirondack Fairy Tales

By: Lettie A. Petrie

Price: $12.50

Publisher: North Country Books Inc: November 1996

Seller ID: 189744

ISBN: 092516853X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Adirondack French Louie: Early Life in the North Woods

By: Harvey L. Dunham

Price: $18.50

Publisher: North Country Books: June 1987

Seller ID: 198635

ISBN: 0932052576

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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Adirondack High: Images of America's First Wilderness

By: Hardie Truesdale, Joanne Michaels

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Countryman Press: June 2005

Seller ID: 189846

ISBN: 0881506745

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Created in 1892 as patchwork of private and public lands with neither an entrance gate nor an admission fee, Adirondack Park is not only celebrated as America's First Wilderness, it is also truly the first people's parka vast region where nature and culture coexist. Adirondack High illuminates this relationship with its striking photography and lithe, thoughtful text. With a masterful use of light and texture, Hardie Truesdale, a renowned nature photographer for more than 30 years, captures the sublimity of the Adirondacks in some of its most compelling vistas. Truesdale works as a painter wou...
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Adirondack Roots (NY): Stories of Hiking, History and Women

By: Sandra Weber

Price: $19.99

Publisher: The History Press: July 2011

Seller ID: 180809

ISBN: 1609493648

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Roots bind people to the Adirondack Mountains. In this rich and diverse collection, local author Sandra Weber celebrates this enduring bond with the region and explores its roots and routes such as women's feats, the naming of mountain peaks and the fight to save forests and tiny alpine plants. From Heart Lake and Caribou Pass to Mount Marcy and Lake Tear, ride an Olympic bobsled run, unearth the destruction of a devastating fire and learn the healing powers of the mountains. Retrace the paths of Theodore Roosevelt, Martha Reben, Edwin Ketchledge, Grace Hudowalski and many others who have live...
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Adirondack Tragedy: The Gillette Murder Case of 1906

By: Joseph W. Brownell

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Chauncy Pr: December 1986

Seller ID: 231706

ISBN: 0932334458

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Adirondack Upland Flora: An Ecological Perspective

By: Michael Kudish

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Chauncy Pr: May 1992

Seller ID: 180812

ISBN: 0918517168

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Adirondacks : Printed From The 1917 Original

By: T. MORRIS LONGSTRETH

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Black Dome Pr: April 2005

Seller ID: 180826

ISBN: 1883789443

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Imagine a six-month backpacking and camping trip to the lakes and high peaks and through the villages and camps of the Adirondacks. It is the stuff that dreams are made of. Longstreth, however, lived that dream and came to love ?this lake-starred, balsam forest? that remained a wilderness despite all the ?modern conveniences? like ?the upholstered car, the thermos flask, the automatic fusillader.? Blue Mt., Loon Lake, the Ausable River, Paul Smith?s, Lake Placid, Saranac Lake, Whiteface, Wilmington Notch, Keene Valley, Indian Pass, Schroon Lake, Hurricane Mt., Wolf Jaws, The Giant, McIntyre wi...
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Adirondacks : Printed From The 1917 Original

By: T. MORRIS LONGSTRETH

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Black Dome Pr: April 2005

Seller ID: 189844

ISBN: 1883789443

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Imagine a six-month backpacking and camping trip to the lakes and high peaks and through the villages and camps of the Adirondacks. It is the stuff that dreams are made of. Longstreth, however, lived that dream and came to love ?this lake-starred, balsam forest? that remained a wilderness despite all the ?modern conveniences? like ?the upholstered car, the thermos flask, the automatic fusillader.? Blue Mt., Loon Lake, the Ausable River, Paul Smith?s, Lake Placid, Saranac Lake, Whiteface, Wilmington Notch, Keene Valley, Indian Pass, Schroon Lake, Hurricane Mt., Wolf Jaws, The Giant, McIntyre wi...
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Alma Farm: An Adirondack Meeting Place

By: Norman Francis Boas,Barbara Linton Meyer

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Boas & Meyer, Publishers: January 1999

Seller ID: 189751

ISBN: 0967262607

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

An Adirondack Passage: The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp

By: Christine Jerome

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Adirondack Mountain Club: December 1998

Seller ID: 180824

ISBN: 0935272941

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

An Adirondack Passage: The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp

By: Christine Jerome

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Adirondack Mountain Club: December 1998

Seller ID: 189851

ISBN: 0935272941

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

An Adirondack Sampler II: Backpacking Trips

By: Bruce Wadsworth

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Adirondack Mountain Club: August 1995

Seller ID: 221674

ISBN: 0935272755

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

An Adirondack Sampler: Day Hikes for All Seasons

By: Bruce Wadsworth

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Adirondack Mountain Club: August 1996

Seller ID: 200941

ISBN: 0935272836

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Black River in the North Country

By: Howard Thomas

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Prospect Books: January 1963

Seller ID: 196202

ISBN: B0007ESSY4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Chautauqua Ghosts

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chautauqua Region Pr: July 1997

Seller ID: 253945

ISBN: 0965895513

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks

By: Philip G. Terrie

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: December 1998

Seller ID: 200945

ISBN: 0815605706

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake: Architecture and History of a Pioneer Health Resort by Philip L. Gallos (1985-08-03)

By: Philip L. Gallos

Price: $39.98

Publisher: Historic Saranac Lake (1985-08-01): January 1656

Seller ID: 196190

ISBN: B01FJ00OIS

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Dead End

By: Frenette, Liza

Price: $6.98

Publisher: North Country Books Inc: May 2005

Seller ID: 269721

ISBN: 1595310010

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Discover the Northwestern Adirondacks: Four-Season Guide to the Oswegatchie Wilderness

By: Barbara McMartin & Bill Ingersoll

Price: $16.00

Publisher: North Country Books: February 2008

Seller ID: 180821

ISBN: 1888374306

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Fifty Hikes in the Adirondacks: Short Walks, Day Trips, and Backpacks Throughout the Park

By: Barbara McMartin

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Countryman Pr: February 1989

Seller ID: 264350

ISBN: 0881501247

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Fishing Camps (For the Fisherman. . .)

By: Ralph Kylloe

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Gibbs Smith: July 2002

Seller ID: 189858

ISBN: 1586851888

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

19.95 gatefold paper 1-58685-188-8 8 x 10 in, 144 pp, 100 Color Photographs, 40 Black & White Photographs, Rights: W, Sports The pure joy of a tug on the line-this is the subject of Fishing Camps. Whether your line yearns for bass, trout, muskie, or salmon, Fishing Camps can help you find the perfect location and accommodations. Author Ralph Kylloe transports readers to camps all over North America through his many experiences-from encountering a rattlesnake while fly-fishing in Colorado, to battling king salmon in Vancouver, to coming face-to-face with a full-grown alligator in Flori...
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Five-Star Trails: Adirondacks: Your Guide to 46 Spectacular Hikes

By: Tim Starmer

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press: May 2017

Seller ID: 237265

ISBN: 163404052X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Folklore from the Adirondack Foothills

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Prospect Books: June 1958

Seller ID: 264546

ISBN: 0913710024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Fun on Flatwater: An Introduction to Adirondack Canoeing

By: Barbara McMartin

Price: $12.50

Publisher: North Country Books: June 1995

Seller ID: 180817

ISBN: 0925168408

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Fun on Flatwater: An Introduction to Adirondack Canoeing

By: Barbara McMartin

Price: $12.50

Publisher: North Country Books: June 1995

Seller ID: 180818

ISBN: 0925168408

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Growing Up Strong: Four North Country Women Recall Their Lives

By: Joan Potter

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Pinto Pr: May 1995

Seller ID: 221295

ISBN: 096324762X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Historical Sketches of Northern New York and the Adirondack Wilderness

By: Nathaniel B. Sylvester

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Heritage Books: July 1990

Seller ID: 189470

ISBN: 1556133189

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Historical Sketches of Northern New York and the Adirondack Wilderness

By: Nathaniel B. Sylvester

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Heritage Books: July 1990

Seller ID: 210275

ISBN: 1556133189

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Just about Everything in the Adirondacks

By: William Chapman White

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: December 1960

Seller ID: 197758

ISBN: 0815680287

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Life With Noah: Stories and Adventures of Richard Smith with Noah John Rondeau

By: William J. O'Hern

Price: $19.95

Publisher: North Country Books: January 1997

Seller ID: 224257

ISBN: 0925168955

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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Living with the Adirondack Forest: Local Perspectives on Land-Use Conflicts

By: Catherine Henshaw Knott

Price: $17.98

Publisher: Cornell University Press: January 1998

Seller ID: 207664

ISBN: 0801485002

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"While locals are inherently integral to land use decisions, their story is seldom coherently placed within the context of competing interests. Knott effectively places local perspectives in the Adirondack land use conflict to illustrate the need for participatory approaches to decision-making." Valerie A. Luzadis, SUNY College of Environmental Science and ForestryAttitudes about land use, Catherine Henshaw Knott suggests, may reflect profound differences in class, religion, and life experience, pitting urban Americans who see nature at risk against rural Americans whose lives are dominated by...
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Middlefield and the Settling of the New York Frontier: A Case Study of Development in Central New York, 1790-1865

By: Dominick J. Reisen

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Square Circle Press: August 2009

Seller ID: 239932

ISBN: 0978906640

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

More than just a mere history of one community, Dominick Reisen's scholarly exploration of Middlefield in Otsego County presents this rural, crossroads hamlet as a case study of the development of small towns in central New York State during the early years of the American Republic, through the Civil War. Reisen tracks the emergence and growth of various businesses and social groups within the community, tracing in great detail the lives of various key figures who made their home in Middlefield. He discusses how external agricultural factors and the great social movements of the era, such as t...
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Nathan Roberts: Erie Canal Engineer

By: Dorris Moore Lawson

Price: $11.95

Publisher: North Country Books: December 1997

Seller ID: 221294

ISBN: 0925168572

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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