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Numéro de l'objet eBay :176026479909
Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN
- 9781929173488
À propos de ce produit
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Appalachian Flooring Mountain Club Books
ISBN-10
1929173482
ISBN-13
9781929173488
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4485498
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Forest and Crag : a History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains
Number of Pages
928 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains, Hiking
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Sports & Recreation
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"This is a superb, monumental history. The Watermans are adept at the capsule profile, whether of peaks or persons. A gallery of characters unrolls, as diverse as those in a novel by Dickens." --Paul Jamieson, editor,The Adirondack Reader "Written with grace, style, and good humor, seasoned with a refreshing sense of wonder, Forest and Crag reads more like a gripping novel than the serious research work it really is." --Magnetic Northmagazine "In its quality, comprehensiveness, and regional orientation, Forest and Crag is unprecedented in American letters. It will become a classic in social, intellectual, and environmental history." --Roderick Nash, author ofWildernessand theAmerican Mind, "This is a superb, monumental history. The Watermans are adept at the capsule profile, whether of peaks or persons. A gallery of characters unrolls, as diverse as those in a novel by Dickens." --Paul Jamieson, editor, The Adirondack Reader "Written with grace, style, and good humor, seasoned with a refreshing sense of wonder, Forest and Crag reads more like a gripping novel than the serious research work it really is." --Magnetic North magazine "In its quality, comprehensiveness, and regional orientation, Forest and Crag is unprecedented in American letters. It will become a classic in social, intellectual, and environmental history." --Roderick Nash, author of Wilderness and the American Mind, "This is a superb, monumental history. The Watermans are adept at the capsule profile, whether of peaks or persons. A gallery of characters unrolls, as diverse as those in a novel by Dickens." --Paul Jamieson, editor, The Adirondack Reader "Written with grace, style, and good humor, seasoned with a refreshing sense of wonder, Forest and Crag reads more like a gripping novel than the serious research work it really is." -- Magnetic North magazine "In its quality, comprehensiveness, and regional orientation, Forest and Crag is unprecedented in American letters. It will become a classic in social, intellectual, and environmental history." --Roderick Nash, author of Wilderness and the American Mind
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
917.4
Table Of Content
Part One: Mountains as "daunting terrible": Before 1830 1) Darby Field on Mount Washington 2) Ira Allen on Mount Mansfield 3) The Belknap-Cutler Expedition to Mount Washington 4) Alden Partridge: The first regionwide hiker 5) The Crawfords of Crawford Notch 6) The Monument Line surveyors on Katahdin 7) Janus on the heights during the 1820s; Part Two: Mountains as sublime: 1830-1870 8) The first mountain tourists 9) Katahdin: A test for the adventurous 10) The Adirondacks at last 11) The mountain guides 12) The Austin sisters and their legacy 13) The elder Hitchcock and Arnold Guyot 14) Wintering over on Moosilauke and Washington; Part Three: Mountains as places to walk: 1970-1910 15) The pleasures of pedestrianism 16) Adirondack Murray's Fools 17) The younger Hitchcock and Verplanck Colvin 18) The first hiking clubs 19) The first mountain guidebooks 20) The first trail systems 21) Three Adirondack trail centers 22) Randolph 23) Other trail systems 24) Trails that failed 25) Backcountry camping in the eighties and nineties 26) Pychowskas ascendant 27) Death in the mountains 28) Trail policy issues 29) J. Rayner Edmands and Warren Hart: A study in contrast 30) The last explorers 31) The conservation movement 32) The first mountain snowshoer33) Winter pioneering on Mount Marcy 34) The first mountain skiers; Part Four: Mountains as escape from urban society: 1910-1950 35) The Long Trail 36) Unification of the White Mountain trails 37) The Adirondacks become one hiking center 38) Baxter State Park 39) Metropolitan trails 40) Connecticut's blue-blazed trail system 41) The proliferation of hiking clubs 42) Backcountry camping in the twenties and thirties 43) Trail maintenance comes of age 44) Regionwide consciousness 45) The Appalachian Trail 46) Superhiking 47) The Bemis Crew 48) Katahdin in Winter 49) Snowshoes versus skies: The great debate 50) Depression, hurricanes, and war; Part Five: Mountains as places for recreation: Since 1950 51) The backpacking boom 52) Environmental ethics and backcountry management 53) Backcountry camping in the seventies and eighties 54) The clubs cope with change 55) Northeastern trail systems mature 56) New paths for trail maintenance 57) Points of controversy 58) Peakbaggers and end-to-enders 59) The "school" of winter mountaineering 60) The winter recreation boom
Synopsis
The definitive history of the mountains of the Northeast is now back in print. Exhaustively researched and superbly written, and now featuring a new introduction by author Laura Waterman, Forest and Crag is a classic of outdoor literature. The late Guy Waterman and his wife Laura were pioneers in promoting preservation of wild places and backwoods ethics. They spent a decade researching and writing Forest and Crag, drawing together widely scattered sources on the history of the White Mountains, the Green Mountains, the Adirondacks, the Catskills, and beyond. The struggles of early pioneers in America's first frontier wilderness, the first ascent of every major peak in the Northeast, the creation of the Appalachian Trail, the golden era of the summit resort hotels, the unforeseen consequences of the backpacking boom of the 1970s and 1980s-it's all here in one comprehensive volume. Lovers of adventure and the outdoors will hail the return of this classic history of the mountains of the Northeast., The definitive history of the mountains of the Northeast is now back in print with this exclusive reissue. Exhaustively researched and superbly written, Forest and Crag combines anecdotes and social history in the first comprehensive history of the northeast mountains.
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