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ADK Publications

Adirondack History and Lore                                   

NEW Third Edition of Adirondack Reader

Editors: Paul Jamieson and Neal Burdick

The new third edition of ADK’s Adirondack Reader is now available. This Adirondack classic, edited by Paul Jamieson and Neal S. Burdick, features writers of the past 400 years reflecting on the changing attitudes toward wilderness and the development of wild lands in the Adirondack Mountains.

     The new edition includes many classic entries from earlier editions plus many new and fascinating entries. It also features 32 pages of reproductions of photographs, drawings, and paintings in color.

One of the few first-rate books on the Adirondacks--George Marshall

 6” x 9”. 544 pages. 32 pages of illustrations.

           

Hardcover $39.95

ISBN-13: 978-1-931951-12-8

ISBN-10: 1-931951-12-8

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No Place I'd Rather Be: Wit and Wisdom from Adirondack Lean-to Journals

"If you like hiking in the Adirondacks, it won't be long before you come across a lean-to placed in some scenic spot to provide shelter for the passing hiker. If you take a look inside, you're likely to find a journal - known locally as a register - stored in a plastic baggie. If you take it out and start to read, you probably won't be going anywhere for a while." This Book is made up of the interesting things people write in lean-to registers. The entries are by turns inspirational, hilarious, pathetic, and downright crazy, to name just a few moods. They provide insight into the minds and motives of people who, for diverse reasons, have chosen through physical hardship to reach places of solitude, beauty, and sometimes misery and danger... Thus begins No Place I'd Rather Be, the inspiration for which came to author Stuart Mesinger on a backpacking trip in the West Canada Lakes Wilderness. Mesinger was reading the entries in one of the West Lake lean-tos when, "the idea struck that someone ought to make a book out of these entries-and that someone ought to be me." By Stuart F. Mesinger. 1st ed. 192 pages, 6" x 8 1/2". Softcover. Member price $11.96. List price $14.95. Order here.

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