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Adirondack Museum Bks.: Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks by Hallie Bond (1998, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSyracuse University Press
ISBN-100815603746
ISBN-139780815603740
eBay Product ID (ePID)823807
Product Key Features
Number of Pages334 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBoats and Boating in the Adirondacks
SubjectBoating, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), History, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)
Publication Year1998
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaTravel, Sports & Recreation, History
AuthorHallie Bond
SeriesAdirondack Museum Bks.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight42 Oz
Item Length11.1 in
Item Width8.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN95-008603
Dewey Edition20
Reviews[The book] touches on literature, art, and folk life, and draws on a wealth of period photographs and illustrations. Bond's narrative is thoroughly researched, well crafted, animated, and personable. . . . Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks is done so well, we should consider it a milestone. . . . Using a remarkable collection of local boats as a focal point for a historical narrative elevates a regional boat study to a higher plane. This book sets a new standard for future studies of traditional boats., This work is a lovely history of the region from the waterway perspective. . . . Highly recommended.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal797/.09747/5
SynopsisA history of small craft used from the earliest times, when water was the only highway, to the 20th century's recreational use of motor boats on the waterways of the Adirondacks., Adirondack history is a tale written o~ the water. In the Adirondacks, people have traveled, conducted warfare, hunted and fished, gone to church, proposed marriage, and driven logs in, on, from, or by water. Without boats, small and large, Adirondack history--social, recreational, commercial, and environmental--would be an affair entirely different from what we have come to know. In this lavishly illustrated account, Hallie E. Bond presents a history of these boats--canoes, sailboats, power launches, outboards, and the indigenous guideboat--that figure prominently in the overall history of the Adirondacks. The pre-contact Indians paddled dugout and bark canoes; in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries these craft were joined by skiffs and bateaux. Between 1820 and World War II, a distinctive tradition of boat building developed, culminating in the famous Adirondack guideboat. As the nineteenth century progressed, a variety of small, fresh water, musclepowered boats was produced in the Adirondacks--an assemblage matched by only a few places in the country. There were the canoes and the men that made them famous--John Henry Rushton and Nessmuk--and the guideboats and their builders--H. Dwight Grant and Willard Hanmer. In the early twentieth century, the development of the internal combustion engine irrevocably changed not only boat use and design, but life and leisure in the Adirondacks. Bond skillfully captures the whole panorama of boats and boating in the Adirondacks, from early dugouts and bateaux to the highpowered inboards that won Gold Cup races on Lake George and the Kevlar pack canoes of today. Drawing on her experience as an historian and Curator of Collections and Boats at the Adirondack Museum, Bond places events and trends of the region in the context of national and international history and describes the significant contribution of the Adirondacks in the early twentieth-century development of recreation and travel in America. Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks also includes a descriptive catalog of boats from the museum's own collection with nearly two hundred illustrations in addition to those in the narrative, a list of boatbuilders active in the North Country before 1975, and a valuable glossary of terms.
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- 16 Jan, 2019
Interesting Adirondack boating Info
Excellent intro and summary to the Adirondacks, boating and the guideboat. Well written, knowledgeable author, much interesting info.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
