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The Erie Canal, Cruising America's Waterways

The Erie Canal, Cruising America's Waterways

by Debbie Daino Stack

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2001
  • HARD COVER
  • 224 PAGES

A tribute and guide to exploring the historic canal sysyem across western New York from Lake Erie to Albany and the Hudson River. (NYS83, $39.95)

The Hudson, A History

The Hudson, A History

by Tom Lewis

  • HISTORY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

This scholarly, illustrated history of the Hudson River traces its course through four centuries, recounting the stories of explorers, artists, industrialists and ecologists--those who have been shaped by the river as well as those who have helped shape it. (NYS46, $17.00)

Erie Canal

Erie Canal

by Martin Morganstein

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 128 PAGES

This collection of 200 archival images captures both the beauty of 19th century rural New York, and the ingenious engineering feats of the day. (GLK47, $21.99)

New York State Map

by American Map

  • 2007
  • MAP

A road map of New York at a scale of 1:710,000. (NYS87, $6.95)

 

Hudson Valley, Catskills Map


by Hagstrom

  • 2005
  • MAP

This handy, laminated overview map shows the Hudson River, east to the Catskills, at a scale of 1:190,000. (NYS71, $8.95)

Erie Canal

Erie Canal


by Deborah Williams

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

This guide to exploring New York's historic canals covers the Oswego, Cayuga-Seneca, and Champlain Canals as well as the Erie. (NYS86, $19.95)

Bond of Union, Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire

Bond of Union, Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire


by Gerard Koeppel

  • HISTORY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

Koeppel traces the politics, drama and impact of the building of the Erie Canal in this lively new history of the 1825 waterway that connected the Great Lakes to New York City. (NYS80, $18.95)

Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point

Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point


by Stephen Ambrose | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Andrew J. Goodpaster

  • HISTORY
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 377 PAGES

Starting with its formation during the Revolutionary War, renowned historian Ambrose follows the history of the United States Military Academy at West Point. First published in 1966, this updated edition brings the story of the academy into the present. (USE71, $25.00)

Inventing Niagara

Inventing Niagara


by Ginger Strand

  • HISTORY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

A witty, well-researched tale of the transformation of a natural wonder into an engineering feat, spectacle and monument. (CND302, $16.00)

The Hudson River, From Tear of the Clouds to Manhattan


by Jake Rajs | Joan K. Davidson

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2006
  • HARD COVER
  • 256 PAGES

This lush, visual celebration of the Hudson River Valley's historic towns, mansions and wilderness includes color photos paired with the writings of luminaries including Washington Irving, Charles Dickens and Robert Caro. (NYS44, $25.00)

The War That Made America, A Short History of the French and Indian War

The War That Made America, A Short History of the French and Indian War


by Fred Anderson

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

Anderson (Crucible of War) illuminates relations between the Indians, French and British in 18th-century North America. (USA157, $17.00)

Wedding of the Waters, The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation

Wedding of the Waters, The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation


by Peter L. Bernstein

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

Bernstein captures the enormity of the Erie Canal project, recounting its genesis, construction, financing, and operation. (NYS85, $16.95)

An Englishman's Journey along America's Eastern Waterways

An Englishman's Journey along America's Eastern Waterways


by Herbert Holtham

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

A facsimile of the 1831 journal of the Unitarian minister, who traveled along the six-year-old Erie Canal. With 30 pen-and-ink drawings. (NYS81, $29.95)

The Erie Canal Reader, 1790-1950

The Erie Canal Reader, 1790-1950


by Roger Hecht

  • ANTHOLOGY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 169 PAGES

The essays, travelogues, and fiction by writers including Trollope, Melville, Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe capture the landscape and life along the Erie Canal from its birth in the New York frontier, through its heyday and 20th Century decline. (NYS88, $19.95)

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans


by James Fenimore Cooper

  • LITERATURE
  • 1981
  • PAPER
  • 400 PAGES

The first of the Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper's racially complex, anti-nationalist 1826 novel was set in rural New York State during the French and Indian War. (NYC24, $4.95)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories


by Washington Irving

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 638 PAGES

Traveling to the Hudson River Valley? Stay awake at night with this great, suspenseful yarn -- or rest easy and read some of the American master's gentler short works. (NYC23, $10.00)

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