Washington Irving's story of a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains and awakens to find a changed world has been a classic of American Literature. This deluxe gift edition carefully reproduces thity-four of Arthir Rackham's enchanting and exquisuute paintings.

Rip Van Winkle

Children's Books

Rackham, Arthur

Irving., Washington

Classics

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History of New York State's Catskill Park (established 1904) and the Catskill Forest Preserve (established 1885), one of the earliest experiments in environmental conservation in the United States, wherein wildlands coexist with private property within the blue line of the Catskill Park. Illustrated with 32 pages of color photographs and more than 70 historical &amp; contemporary B&amp;W photographs, and including the Carpenter Report, an 1886 inventory of the Catskill Mtns., including its streams and rivers, game, forests &amp; industry.

The Catskill Park: Inside the Blue Line

History

Dunn, Russell

Van Valkenburgh, Norman J.

Teich, Thomas

Olney, Christopher

Americas

An illustrated guide to the Adirondack Park (NYS) in 1916, with maps, as told through a 6-month-long backpacking journey.

The Adirondacks

Longstreth, Thomas Morris

An architectural portrait of the city of Hudson, NY (est. 1783), featuring more than 200 antique and modern photographs and antique maps, with many of the photographs dating from 1850-1930. The city of Hudson, founded in 1783 by Quaker merchants and whalers from New England, has been called "a dictionary of American Architecture" because of its many 18th and 19th century buildings that have survived to the present day. With a foreword by poet John Ashbery, and an introduction by novelist/screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer and photographer Lynn Davis.

Historic Hudson: An Architectural Portrait

Byrne Fone

Led by Russell Dunn, author of top-selling and critically acclaimed guides to the waterfalls of the Adirondack, Catskill, and Shawangunk mountains, discover 100 “cool cascades” along the Hudson River and its tributaries—one of America’s greatest watersheds and a designated National Heritage Area. Hudson Valley Waterfall Guide features detailed maps, easy-to-follow directions, charming vintage postcard illustrations, extensive history and background, and includes waterfall adventures for every level of ability. Visit waterfalls in Saratoga, Albany, Washington, Rensselaer, Columbia, Greene, Ulster, Dutchess, Putnam, Orange and Westchester counties in New York, plus Bergen County, New Jersey, and see for yourself why the National Park Service dubbed the Hudson River Valley “the landscape that defined America.”

Hudson Valley Waterfall Guide: From Saratoga and the Capital Region to the Highlands and Palisades

Russell Dunn

Thirty nature treks, selected for their natural, stand-alone beauty, are enhanced by tangible silhouettes of a fascinating past, from early Native Americans and Colonial settlers to the Industrial Revolution and Victorian-era grand hotels. Hike to waterfalls, mountains, escarpments, lakes, sculpted rocks, ponds, rivers, islands, caves, balanced rocks, geysers, and deep gorges while visiting the sites of famous battles of the Revolutionary War, ghostly industrial ruins, a Moorish-style castle, views and vistas made world-famous by Americafs greatest painters, vanished Shaker communities, great estates of the gGilded Age,h a working lighthouse, and gNew Yorkfs Mount Rushmore.h HIKES INCLUDE Starks Knob &amp; Schuylerville Champlain Canal Towpath Saratoga National Historic Park Geyser Park Vischer Ferry Nature &amp; Historic Preserve Peebles Island State Park Oakwood Cemetery Burden Pond Environmental Park Ann Lee Pond Indian Ladder Bennett Hill Preserve Clarksville Cave Preserve Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve Balanced Rocks Shaker Mountain No Bottom Pond Tyringham Cobble Ice Glen &amp; Laurafs Tower Ashintully Estate &amp; McLennan Preserve Vromanfs Nose Pratt Rock Lindenwald &amp; Martin Van Buren Nature Trail Rogers Island Olana Montgomery Place Ravena Falls Hudson River School Art Trail Catskill Mountain House Escarpment Saugerties Lighthouse Overlook Mountain Sky Top &amp; Mohonk Lake

Trails with Tales: History Hikes through the Capital Region, Saratoga, Berkshires, Catskills & Hudson Valley

Delaney, Barbara

Perhaps best known as the painter of Kindred Spirits, the quintessential Hudson River School painting, Asher B. Durand (1796 to 1886) was one of the most important American artists of the nineteenth century, a central figure as an artist, as a founder of art institutions, and as the acknowledged leader of the American landscape school from his election as president of the National Academy of Design in 1845 until his death at the age of ninety. Durand's six-decade career spanned the period from the earliest efforts of artists and writers to construct a national cultural identity on through the mid-century triumph and, later, the eclipse of what is now known as the Hudson River School. In this biography first published in 1894, Durand's son John reconstructed the artist's life from family records and documents and his own recollections, creating what has become an essential source of biographical data on Durand, his paintings, his engravings, and his patrons. This edition features a new introduction by Linda S. Ferber, vice president and museum director for the New York Historical Society.

The Life and Times of Asher B. Durand

Arts & Photography

john-durand

History & Criticism

Denning's Point is a remarkable saga that leads from newspaper morgues and back rooms of museums to a hands-on archaeological dig that confirmed the presence of prehistoric American Indians on Denning's Point as early as 4000 BC. Members of Henry Hudson's crew may have landed there in 1609, as George Washington certainly did during the Revolutionary War. The most exciting discovery by far, however, was finding proof that it was on Denning's Point that Alexander Hamilton first set his ideas on paper in a series of editorials that grew to become the Federalist Papers and subsequently were incorporated into the United States Constitution. Along the way, meet a strong-willed pioneer woman and a ruthless railroad tycoon. Visit a gracious early-1800s mansion and a dusty brickyard providing building materials for a rising New York City. Witness the decline of the Hudson River Valley in the early and mid-1900s, and its rebirth today as a valued watershed of unparalleled beauty and now the home of The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, destined to become for the rivers and estuaries of the world what the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is for the oceans of the world.

Denning's Point, A Hudson River History

Jim Heron

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The Rise and Fall of the Taconic Mountains: A Geological History of Eastern New York

Fisher, Donald W.

Nightingale, Stephen L.

With this, his fourth waterfall guidebook, Albany writer Russell Dunn has now written more books about waterfalls than any other author in the world. Mohawk Region Waterfall Guide treats the reader to 79 cool cascades, from the Helderbergs escarpment on the outskirts of Albany and magnificent Cohoes Falls near the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, through the storied Mohawk Valley out to Utica, past the farmlands and historic villages of Schoharie Valley ( the breadbasket of the American Revolution ), out to Cooperstown and the legendary Leatherstocking Region, and along scenic Route 20 all the way to Syracuse. Dunn s thorough research provides a wealth of historical and anecdotal material, and his detailed directions and maps make locating the falls easy. Illustrated with 70 antique postcards and 20 maps.

Mohawk Region Waterfall Guide: From the Capital District to Cooperstown & Syracuse: The Mohawak and Schoharie Valleys, Helderbergs, and Leatherstocking Country

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

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