ADIRONDACK COUNTRY

by William Chapman White ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

With authority and modesty, with loving heart and level eye, Mr. White writes of the history, lore, and nature of the Adirondacks. There are themes in the Adirondack history, and we follow them as he tells of the people who came to make their fortunes in farming, mining, timber; of the men who developed the woods as a vacation area; of those who sought to save the natural resources of the area and worked to make it a forest preserve. The Adirondacks had its quota of colorful characters: the guides from John Cheney to Les Hathaway; Dewey, pioneer of modern library science who started the exclusive Lake Placid Club in the fashionable era; Dr. Trudeau whose sanatorium for the tubercular brought a new mission to the area; Joseph Bonaparte who had hoped to build New France on his holdings; John Brown, who left his beloved woodlands to fulfill his mission. But the Adirondack bounty is in forest and stream, and Mr. White treats the reader to a turning of the seasons through an Adirondack year. A pleasure for transient and rooted lovers of the area.

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Publisher: Little, Brown-D.S.P.

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION