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The Adirondack Reader, third edition

Item Number: 169

Estimated Value: 50 USD
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Item Description

Four Centuries of Adirondack Writing, Edited by Paul Jamieson with Neal Burdick (Editor-in-Chief of Adirondac magazine since 1984)

The Adirondack Reader was first published in 1064 and was promptly hailed as one of the most important books about the region in the post-World War II period. In the 45 years since its publication, much has changed in the Adirondacks, and much has stayed the same.

In this third edition, Paul Jamieson, ably assisted by Neal Burdick, has melded many of the original book's finest pieces with more contemporary reflections on changing attitudes toward wilderness and development. Jamieson wrote that "Adirondack literature is an unparalleled mirror of the relations of the Americans to the woods. As William James entitled one of his books The Varieties of Religious Experience, so might the Reader be subtitled The Varieties of Wilderness Experience or Wilderness as States of Mind.