Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 334 pages
• Published by: Syracuse University Press July 1998
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0815603746
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0815603740
• Book Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.4 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 2.7 pounds

Product Description
"Excellent . a view of the changes that took place in the economic life of the region. Highly recommended". -- Choice

Reader Reviews
There could hardly be a more qualified author for this book's subject. Hallie Bond is an historian and Curator of Collections and Boats at the Adirondack Museum. For anyone who has watched in awe as an Adirondack Guideboat has glided out of the morning mist by a local getting her morning exercise or perhaps her daily groceries, this book will charm you. The book covers canoes, kayaks, sailing canoes, guide boats, launches, dories, and even runabouts. The author has included the copious endnotes which you'd expect of such a scholarly treatment, as well as a comprehensive catalog of the boat collection in the Adirondack Museum. And as likely as you are to purchase this book for its mesmerizing historic photographs of the long-gone Adirondack denizens at work and play in their boats, you are most likely to treasure it as the definitive history of Adirondack watercraft. For it is in writing history that Ms. Bond excels. You will learn about the "sports," the local term for visiting hunters and fishermen, and you will share the awe of the tourists admiring the region's natural beauty: "...we were spellbound, for a time, by a scene in which were blended so many natural harmonies." Of course you will also learn how each type of boat was made, and what characteristics each one offered. It is a compelling book, and will make you want to own a guideboat of your own, and will make you want to visit the Adirondack Museum. Savor it slowly, chapter by chapter, and when you return to the Adirondacks, you'll be a much wiser sport for having read Ms. Bond's masterpiece.