The Adirondack Reader: Four Centuries of Adirondack Writing (Third Edition)

xv, 495 pp. "The fourd hundred years of history and adventure covered in this book carry readers onto a main trail of American life and letters: A trail peopled by Champlain as described by Parkman; Ethan Allen and Cooper's Leatherstocking; R. L. Stevenson at Dr. Trudeau's Saranac; Teddy Roosevelt and John Brown; the intellectuals Emerson, Lowell, and William James; the artist Winslow Homer. Eventually the trail winds to contemporary writers with vision like Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Folwell, Richard Beamish, Barbara McMartin, and Christine Jerome. Contributors include: Francis Parkman, James Fenimore Cooper, Ethan Allen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bill McKibben, Robert Louis Stevenson, Theodore Dresier, Joyce Carol Oates, Theodore Roosevelt, and more.