Notes Collected in the Adirondacks: The Fishing and Hunting Diary with Insights of a Physician, Scholar, and Humanist, in Two Volumes: Volume One: 1895 & 1896; Volume Two: 1897 & 1898
Regular price
$ 75.00
xxiii, 188; ix, 224 pp. Two volume set. Maps and sketches throughout. Sid Whelan has been transcribing the diaries of Arpad Gerster since 1990. Arpad Gerster was a Hungarian surgeon who emigrated to the United States in the 1870s. A man of extraordinary interests and powers of observation, he was a linguist, musician, artist, traveler, writer, in addition to conducting an exemplary career in medicine. His diaries chronicling his visits to the Adirondacks (Raquette and Long Lakes) from 1895 to the early 1900s are a unique and exceptionally vivid and astute record of the region in that time period. A surgeon who practiced at Mt. Sinai in the late 1890s and early 1900s, Dr. Arpad Gerster was also a sportsman, a linguist, and an artist. His vivid, humorous observations of nature and people, his delight in the outdoors, and his drawings and etchings offer a portrait of the Adirondacks in the late 19th century. This volume is a continuation of Notes Collected in the Adirondacks 1895 and 1896, the Fishing and Hunting Diary with Insights of a Physician, Scholar, and Humanist, acclaimed by Bill McKibben, Nelson Bryant, and Nick Lyons, among others. A surgeon who practiced at Mt. Sinai in NYC in the late 1890s and early 1900s, Dr. Arpad Gerster, Hungarian by birth, was also a sportsman, linguist, and an artist. Both diaries chronicle his visits to the Adirondacks, where he had camps at Raquette Lake and later Long Lake. His vivid, often humorous observations of nature and people, his delight in the outdoors, and his drawings and etchings, are a larger portrait of a region in the age of William West Durant , great camps, railroads, and the beginnings of conservation. Illustrated with Gerster's work and maps of the region in the 1890s, this volume also contains an interview with Dr. John C. A. Gerster, Dr. Arpad Gerster's son, and a detailed index covering both volumes.