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Canoeing the Adirondacks with Nessmuk
The Adirondack Letters of George Washington Sears
Av Dan Brenan
Häftad, 1993
230 kr
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The second, revised edition of a classic, 19th-century work which captures the pleasures of camping and canoeing in the Adirondacks. The letters of George Washington Sears should interest not only the wilderness lover, but also the boater and craftsman who longs to own the perfect canoe.
Rushton and His Times in American Canoeing
Häftad, 1977
219 kr
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This is the story of J. Henry Rushton, a native of northern New York State who became world famous as a builder of canoes. He and his craft were at the center of notable events in canoeing history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Rushton was born in 1843 in a small settlement on the …
Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks
Häftad, 1998
357 kr
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A history of small craft used from the earliest times, when water was the only highway, to the 20th century's recreational use of motor boats on the waterways of the Adirondacks.
Wild Exuberance
Harold Weston's Adirondack Art
Inbunden, 2005
242 kr
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Early in his career, critics and collectors widely recognized that Harold Weston (1894-1972), was capturing and saying something unusual in his paintings. ""There is a young American painter,"" wrote Duncan Phillips, ""who stirs in me the hope for a re-birth on this new soil of something that was …
Wild Exuberance
Harold Weston's Adirondack Art
Häftad, 2005
212 kr
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Early in his career, critics and collectors widely recognized that Harold Weston (1894-1972), was capturing and saying something unusual in his paintings. ""There is a young American painter,"" wrote Duncan Phillips, ""who stirs in me the hope for a re-birth on this new soil of something that was …
In the Wilderness
Häftad, 1990
186 kr
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Cited in Adirondack Life as one of the twenty-five most collectible books about the Adirondacks ever to appear, these essays were first published in book form in 1878. Warner’s main theme is the small, often-ludicrous figure that the human being cuts in the wilderness. His urbane satire takes the …
Adirondack Prints and Printmakers
The Call of the Wild
Inbunden, 1998
295 kr
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This volume presents essays which explore the influence of the Adirondack region on artists and printmakers. Including essays originally presented at the 1995 North American Print Conference, the text embodies the artistic spectrum from the documentary to the aesthetic.
Rooted in Rock
New Adirondack Writing, 1975-2000
Av Jim Gould
Inbunden, 2001
265 kr
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Contemporary essays, literary nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and excerpted fiction complete this anthology-the first since Paul Jamieson's Adirondack Reoder in more than twenty years-a sampling of some of the most exciting writers of the Adirondack Mountains. In the past twenty years the …
Ashbel P. Fitch
Champion of Old New York
Inbunden, 2011
295 kr
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The concept of an ""honest Tammany man"" sounds like an oxymoron, but it became a reality in the curious career of Ashbel P. Fitch, who served New York City as a four-term congressman and a one-term city comptroller during the late nineteenth century. Although little known today, Fitch was well …
