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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 sleepawaycamps in the Adirondacks. These camps inspired vivid memories andcreated an enduring legacy that has come to be a uniquely Americantradition. In A Paradise for Boys and Girls: Children's Camps in theAdirondacks, a complement to the Adirondack museum exhibit of thesame name, the authors explore the history of Adirondack children'scamps, their influence on the lives of the campers, and their impact onthe communities in which they exist.
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Adirondack Album, Vol. II

By: Fowler, Barney

Price: $19.98

Publisher: North Country Books Inc: June 1980

Seller ID: 181163

ISBN: 0960555609

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: 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

Verplanck Colvin worked for 28 years as the Superintendent of the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Mountains. This collection of essays reveals his many perspectives on the Adirondacks, one of the last great frontiers of the past.
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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

Verplanck Colvin worked for 28 years as the Superintendent of the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Mountains. This collection of essays reveals his many perspectives on the Adirondacks, one of the last great frontiers of the past.
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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

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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

The Adirondack Mountains captivate inhabitants, fostering deep roots and rich memories. In this 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 discover the healing powers of the mountains. Retrace the paths of Theodore Roosevelt, Martha Reben, Edwin Ketchledge, Grace Hudo...
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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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Adventures in Hiking: A Young Peoples' Guide to the Adirondacks

By: McMartin, Barbara

Price: $9.98

Publisher: North Country Books Inc: October 1993

Seller ID: 275739

ISBN: 0925168254

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

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: Jerome, Christine

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Adirondack Mountain Club: December 1998

Seller ID: 189851

ISBN: 0935272941

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: 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

An Adirondack Sampler: Day Hikes for All Seasons

By: Wadsworth, Bruce

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Adirondack Mountain Club: August 1988

Seller ID: 311208

ISBN: 0935272445

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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

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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

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.
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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 Florida's Lake...
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Five-Star Trails: Adirondacks: Your Guide to 46 Spectacular Hikes

By: Starmer, Tim

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press: May 2017

Seller ID: 237265

ISBN: 163404052X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The Adirondack Park is an immense wilderness encompassing more than 9,375 square miles. Within its boundaries are rugged mountains, countless pristine lakes and ponds, seemingly endless forests, and thousands of miles of wild rivers, providing an infinite number of outdoor adventures. The revised edition of Five-Star Trails: Adirondacks, by Tim Starmer, features six new popular trails and provides a detailed guide to some of the most stunning views found across the Adirondacks. Included are rugged and steep ascents up Snowy Mountain in the Central Adirondacks, which...
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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

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: Knott, Catherine Henshaw

Price: $17.98

Publisher: Cornell University Press: January 1998

Seller ID: 207664

ISBN: 0801485002

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Attitudes 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 nature's forces. She documents the thoughts and feelings of people whose lives are intimately connected to the forest, including loggers, trappers, craftspeople, and guides, as well as tree farmers and maple syrup producers. After describing the key players in the conflict and chronicling battles and bridge-building between stake-holders, Knott concludes that t...
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Longstreet Highroad Guide to the New York Adirondacks (Longstreet Highlands Innactive Series)

By: Brown, Phil

Price: $11.98

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing: April 1999

Seller ID: 289817

ISBN: 797993250542

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

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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

On the Adirondack Survey with Verplanck Colvin: The Diaries of Percy Reese Morgan

By: Percy Reese Morgan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Purple Mountain Pr Ltd: July 1991

Seller ID: 235608

ISBN: 0935796215

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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Reflections from Canoe Country: Paddling the Waters of the Adirondacks and Canada (New York State Series)

By: Chris Angus

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: April 1997

Seller ID: 189333

ISBN: 0815605714

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This volume shows the outdoors in all its moods, from swollen brooks in springtime to white-capped autumn lakes, from the wandering Oswegatchie River to the dark tarns of Nova Scotia. The author promotes the pleasures of his excursions yet cautions against encouraging too much human impact.
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Relishing Our Resources Along Lake Champlain in Essex County, New York

By: Virginia Westbrook

Price: $29.98

Publisher: Champlain Valley Heritage Network: January 2001

Seller ID: 224266

ISBN: 0967836603

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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Rushton and His Times in American Canoeing (Adirondack Museum Books)

By: Manley Atwood

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: August 1977

Seller ID: 221298

ISBN: 0815601417

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Concise explanations of the major naval and land battles of world history ending with 1905.
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Seneca Ray Stoddard: Adirondack illustrator : an exhibition at the Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, June 15 to October 15, 1981 & 1982

By: William Crowley

Price: $29.98

Publisher: AM: January 1982

Seller ID: 224264

ISBN: 0910020353

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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Seneca Ray Stoddard: Transforming the Adirondack Wilderness in Text and Image (New York State Series)

By: Jeffrey Horrell

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: December 1999

Seller ID: 197759

ISBN: 0815606095

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

An exploration of the Adirondack photographic and literary work of Seneca Ray Stoddard. It examines how it influenced and was influenced by changing attitudes toward wilderness in the last half of the 19th century and how it reflected class and power in the emerging tourist industry.
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Smoke Rings Over the Valey

By: Roy Gallinger

Price: $11.98

Publisher: North Country Books: January 2001

Seller ID: 253830

ISBN: 0925168742

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Soft Shoulders

By: Frenette, Liza

Price: $12.95

Publisher: North Country Books: November 1998

Seller ID: 269722

ISBN: 092516870X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Tales from the Adirondack Foothills

By: Thomas, Howard

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 303918

ISBN: 281CAO1005764

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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