Regional Studies:
The Adirondacks and The Encyclopedia of New York State
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Listing of New York State Subject Books:
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The Encyclopedia of New York State
Peter Eisenstadt, Editor in Chief
Laura-Eve Moss, Managing Editor
The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire
State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed
entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State
as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and
feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life.
Cloth $45.00
| 0-8156-0808-X
| 2005
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A Project of the Wildlife Conservation Society ...
The Adirondack Atlas
A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park
Jerry Jenkins with Andy Keal
"[The Atlas] will quickly emerge as the most-thumbed book on the shelf of anyone concerned with the past, the present, and the future of these six million acres, and soon it will seem as inevitable and permanent as the cliffs above Chapel Pond."
—From the Foreword by Bill McKibben
"Where in the Adirondacks were Cold War nuclear missile silos located? Which Adirondack county has the highest rate of Lyme disease? Birth rates? Indian war sites? Deer harvests? School budgets? Geology? Climate change? If it involves the Adirondacks, Jerry Jenkins can give you the answer. . . . The 288-page Atlas uses 450 maps and 300 graphs, charts and illustrations to answer just about any question you could think to ask-and many more that would never cross your mind. . . . The information is presented in a series of tightly focused, stand-alone features that rarely run more than a page. Woven into the facts and figures are old stories about Indian wars, logging drives and forest lore."
—William Kates, Associated Press
Paper $34.95
| 0-8156-0757-1
| 2004
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Adirondack Camps
Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950
Craig Gilborn
"A comprehensive study of the evolution of these peculiarly American structures, from the earliest primitive open camps, shanties, and huts to the sometimes pretentious mansions that rose beside wilderness lakes in the last part of the 19th and early 20th centuries."
—Adirondac
Cloth $49.95
| 0-8156-0626-5
| 2000
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The Adirondack Park
A Wildlands Quilt
Barbara McMartin
"This is a gem of a book. It makes full use of Barbara McMartin’s unique
status as the most knowledgeable person alive and at work today in the Adirondack region."
—Adirondac
Paper $24.95
| 0-8156-0567-6
| 1999
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Adirondack Vernacular
The Photography of Henry M. Beach
Robert Bogdan
"Entrepreneurial and civic-minded, Beach depicted the realities of upstate New York life, when little formal attention was paid to such prosaic subjects, thus providing us with an authentic, firsthand, sweeping visual record. His participation in the popularization of photography had a dramatic impact by influencing in a direct way how ordinary citizens, recipients of his cards, viewed upstate New York, not with idyllic images but with images of ordinary people taking pride in doing ordinary acts. . . .You should run, not walk, to the nearest bookstore to purchase this beautiful, well-written, and well-researched excursion into the uncharted territory of the real photo postcard, a genre that addresses broad social context while at the same time preserving historical and cultural memory for all of us."
—The Postcard Collector
Cloth $49.95
| 0-8156-0781-4
| 2003
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All In a Day’s Work
Scenes and Stories from an Adirondack Medical Practice
Daniel Way, M.D.
"Full-color photographs illustrate every page, and the down-
to-earth narrative text describes not only the beauty and majesty of the scenery, but also vignettes from the lives of patients, some stories uplifting, some heartbreaking. An emotionally moving portrait of a land and the people who call it home."
—Wisconsin Bookwatch
Cloth $49.95
| 0-8156-0801-2
| 2004
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Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks
The Story of the Lake, the Land, and the People
Edited by Jane A. Barlow
Antique postcards and family photographs bring this book to life. Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks delivers previously unpublished stories derived from the memoirs, oral histories, diary entries, and personal correspondence of the men and women who settled the area.
Cloth $45.00
| 0-8156-0774-1
| 2004
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Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks
Hallie E. Bond
"This book sets a new standard for future studies of traditional boats."
—WoodenBoat
Cloth $49.95
| 0-8156-0373-8
| 1995
Paper $34.95
| 0-8156-0374-6
| 1998
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Contested Terrain
A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks
, Second Edition
Philip G. Terrie
"The finest general Adirondack history yet written, the book to which all subsequent accounts will have to refer. Instead of recounting the colorful tales of the Adirondacks, Terrie examines the ways different groups with different interests thought of the Adirondacks, and how those conceptions clashed."
—Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books
Paper $22.95
| 978-0-8156-0904-9
| 2008
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Covered Bridges of New York State
A Guide
Rick L. Berfield
Photographs by Richard R. Wilson
"A carefully researched and beautifully illustrated book. . . . Berfield is a well-organized yet unobtrusive writer. He steps back and lets the information tell the story. Along with explaining engineering details and truss designs, he offers concise, appealing history. . . . Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in Catskill or New York State history or engineering."
—Kaatskill Life
Paper $24.95
| 0-8156-0748-2
| 2002
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Exposing the Wilderness
Early Twentieth-Century Adirondack Postcard Photographers
Robert Bogdan
"This is an appealing look at the lives and work of six photographers who specialized in taking photo postcard views in and around the Adirondacks during the first part of the 20th century. . . . Bogdan has clearly done his research. The lives of his subjects have been carefully recreated from a variety of sources."
—Adirondac
Cloth $39.95
| 0-8156-0608-7
| 1999
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The Extraordinary Adirondack Journey of Clarence Petty
Wilderness Guide, Pilot, and Conservationist
Christopher Angus
"Clarence Petty’s life reads like a history of the Adirondacks. The son of a guide, Petty has been a leader in supporting the APA's preservationist goals. He also served as a forest ranger, camp director for the Civilian Conservation Corps, WWII pilot, and trainer-owner of a flight school.
. . . Recommended."
—Choice
Cloth $26.95
| 0-8156-0741-5
| 2002
Paper $19.95
| 978-0-8156-0870-7
| 2007
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Freedom in the Wilds
An Artist in the Adirondacks, Third Edition
Harold Weston
Edited by Rebecca Foster
Harold Weston’s captivating account of his intimate relationship with the wilderness, Freedom in the Wilds combines an informal history of the Adirondack Mountain Reserve with his own experiences there as a painter and woodsman. He incorporates stories gathered over many years from the region’s guides and lumbermen and the wealthy visionaries seeking to preserve the wilderness.
Cloth $24.95
| 978-0-8156-0899-8
| 2008
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Ladies of the Lake
Women Rooted in Water
Kathleen Bagley
With photographs by Christine Thomsen
This book is for anyone who visits or appreciates Lake Placid and has an interest in the region’s rich culture and history. But it is also written for women and men who spend time on the water anywhere, for lovers of the changing seasons, for armchair enthusiasts and for anyone who delights in the inspiring lives of women everywhere.
Cloth $39.95
| 0-9547676-0-8
| 2004
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Perspectives on the Adirondacks
A Thirty-year Struggle by People Protecting Their Treasure
Barbara McMartin
"A detailed, cautionary tale of what happens when a government agency with a mandate to regulate development, acquire new lands, and encourage planning neglects to involve local residents in fulfilling its mission."
—Choice
Cloth $34.95
| 0-8156-0742-3
| 2002
Paper $24.95
| 978-0-8156-0895-0
| 2007
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River of Mountains
A Canoe Journey Down the Hudson
Peter Lourie
"An engaging tale."
—Library Journal
Cloth $29.95
| 0-8156-0315-0
| 1995
Paper $19.95
| 0-8156-0316-9
| 1998
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Round Barns of New York
Richard Triumpho
A fascinating chronicle that shows how these eccentric barns rose to fashion, why so few survived in New York State, and why the remaining are worth studying and preserving as legitimate architecture and as a record of agricultural progress in New York.
Cloth $24.95
| 0-8156-0796-2
| 2004
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Seneca Ray Stoddard
Transforming the Adirondack Wilderness in Text and Image
Jeffrey L. Horrell
"Explores the nature of this Adirondack pioneer’s work and examines how it was influenced by the changing attitudes toward wilderness in the last half of the 19th century."
—Bulletin of Science and Technology and Society
Cloth $29.95
| 0-8156-0609-5
| 1999
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Wild Exuberance
Harold Weston’s Adirondack Art
Rebecca Foster and Caroline M. Welsh
With Contributions by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Stephen B. Phillips,
and Kathleen V. Jameson
Along with 119 color and 10 black-and-white plates of Weston's works compiled by his daughter, Nina Weston Foster, curator of the Harold Weston Foundation, the catalog includes essays that cover myriad aspects of Weston's life and art.
Cloth $60.00
| 0-8156-0809-8
| 2005
Paper $45.00
| 0-8156-0834-9
| 2005
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Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press
David Tatham
Winner of the Ewell L. Newman Book Award
"Winslow Homer, the best-known American painter of the 19th century, also contributed extensively to the pictorial press-a lesser featured fact of his life. Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press focuses on and reproduces illustrations from throughout Homer's career, from novice to established artist, examining his contributions to the pictorial press and its financial effects upon his career. An excellent survey."
—Bookwatch
Cloth $39.95s
| 0-8156-2974-5
| 2003
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Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks
David Tatham
"A highly original examination of the human race's relationship to the natural world at a time when long-established assumptions about humans, nature, and art itself were undergoing profound change."
—New York History
Paper $34.95
| 0-8156-0773-3
| 2004
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For more information
Series Editors:
Mary Selden Evans
Executive Editor
Syracuse University Press
Tel.: 315-443-5543
msevans@syr.edu
Annelise Finegan
Acquisitions Editor
Syracuse University Press
Tel.: 315-443-5647
amfinega@syr.edu
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