The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness

A New York Times Notable Book

"Conjures the Adirondack wilderness as a vast and imposing stage on which a succession of human dramas—from the romantic to the terrifying—come alive."
—John Berendt, #1 New York Times-bestselling author

This book is a romance, a story of first love between Americans and a thing they call "wilderness." For it was in the Adirondacks that masses of non-Native Americans first learned to cherish the wilderness as a place of recreation and solace.

In this lyrical narra...