{"product_id":"the-hudson-the-rivers-of-america-series-2","title":"The Hudson (The Rivers of America Series)","description":"xviii, 434 pp. With new preface. A prolific writer of prose, poetry, and regional history, Carl Carmer first gained national attention with Stars Fell n Alabama, a book about Alabama folkways. But it is his writings about upstate New York, where he was born and lived for much of his life, that firmly established him as a folk historian and master storyteller. The Hudson, originally published in 1939, is the most popular of these writings. Best of the Rivers of America series, The Hudson is less a formal historical account of the discovery and development of the river that a personal, anecdotal view of it. Included are tales of white-sailed sloops and steamboats racing from Albany to New York; of old whalers and trader sea dogs of the Catskill shore; of showboats playing anti-rent meoldramas to incite farmers against their landlords; of great disasters and heroic deeds; of the efforts of the Hudson River School to capture \"sublimity\" on canvas; of the quarrelsome, rough-and-tumble life of the Dutch along the river's banks, and many more.","brand":"Holt, Rinehart \u0026 Winston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39649909178438,"sku":"2318975","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2318975.jpg?v=1638984949","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/the-hudson-the-rivers-of-america-series-2","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}