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An Adirondack Passage: The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp by Jerome, Christine

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ISBN
9781621240006

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Breakaway Books
ISBN-10
1621240002
ISBN-13
9781621240006
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143496101

Product Key Features

Book Title
Adirondack Passage : the Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Canoeing, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Sports & Recreation
Author
Christine Jerome
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
An
Dewey Decimal
917.47/50443
Table Of Content
Preface 1 Boonville to old Forge 2 Old Forge to Inlet 3 Inlet to Raquette Lake 4 Raquette Lake to Forked Lake 5 Forked Lake to Long Lake 6 Long Lake to Raquette Falls 7 Raquette Falls to Stony Pond 8 Upper Saranac Lake to Spitfire Lake 9 Turnaround 10 Upper Saint Regis Lake to Indian Carry 11 Indian Carry to Bog River 12 Blue Mountain Lake to Eagle Lake 13 Eagle Lake to Eighth Lake 14 Eighth Lake to Minnehaha Epilogue Bibliography Index
Synopsis
In 1883, journalist and outdoorsman George Washington Sears ("Nessmuk") paddled his 9-foot, 101/2-pound canoe, the Sairy Gamp, 266 miles through the central Adirondacks. A little over a hundred years later, author Christine Jerome retraced his journey in a Kevlar version of the Sairy. The result is a rich, eloquent narrative that weaves Nessmuk's story with Jerome's and intersperses Adirondack natural and cultural history. Book jacket., "A fine piece of work and a great delight."--John McPhee Christine Jerome decides to repeat the 266-mile Adirondack canoe journey of George Washington Sears (pen name "Nessmuk"), a famous adventure and nature writer for the popular magazine Forest and Stream in the late nineteenth century. Part of what made his 1883 journey remarkable was the length of his canoe--a mere nine feet. The "Sairy Gamp" was the lightest of cockleshells, but could navigate rough lakes and stony rapids. Sears could heave it over his head and portage it between lakes for miles. So Jerome has a similar canoe built for herself, and sets off to see what has changed and what has remained on the water trail through the mountains. The result is a classic of canoe literature: a beautiful paean to journeying silently in light craft. Her nature writing and knowledge of local history lends a depth and substance to every mile. She conjures up Teddy Roosevelt, the Whitneys and Vanderbilts, as well as old hermits and eccentrics. She tells of legendary crimes committed along the lakeshores, while keeping her expert ear tuned for birdsong in the trees. An unforgettable account of traveling by canoe, and traveling back in time., Canoeing over two hundred miles through the Adirondacks, retracing the famous route of "Nessmuk," a late-nineteenth century adventurer.

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