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The Air We Breathe

The Air We Breathe


by Andrea Barrett

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

Barrett brings back characters from her National Book Award-winning Ship Fever in this marvelous novel, set at a public sanitarium in the northern Adirondacks in 1916. (NYS65, $14.95)

All That is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School


by John Driscoll

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 1997
  • HARD COVER
  • 144 PAGES

A collection of 78 full-page color reproductions of paintings from the Hudson River School, along with short introductory essays. (NYS33, $45.00)

Backroads of New York, Your Guide to New York's Most Scenic Backroad Adventures


by Kim Knox Beckius

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 159 PAGES

Get out of town with this handy guide, featuring two dozen trips along the backroads and byways of rural and wild New York. With maps and photographs. (NYS66, $21.95)

Catskill Mountain Guide


by Pet Kick

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 232 PAGES

This must-have guide, with a pullout, double-sided topo map of the park covers all the Catskill trails, including both short hikes and multi-day adventures. (NYS105, $23.95)

Catskill Mountain Guide, Hiking Trails in the Catskills

Catskill Mountain Guide, Hiking Trails in the Catskills


by Peter Kick

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 237 PAGES

An authoritative, pocket guide to walks and hikes throughout the Catskills. (NYC91, $19.95)

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)

Frederic Church's Olana: Architecture and Landscape as Art


by Franklin Kelly | James Anthony Ryan

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2001
  • HARD COVER
  • 103 PAGES

Mr. Ryan tells how Church, a famous and talented artist of the Hudson River School, built his home, Olana. That home is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Hudson River Valley; Mr. Ryan is eminently qualified to chronicle it inasmuch as he was the site manager for twenty years. (NYS38, $21.95)

Glories of the Hudson, Frederic Edwin Church's Views from Olana


by Evelyn D. Trebilcock

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2009
  • HARD COVER
  • 96 PAGES

The companion book to an exhibition a Church's Peesian-inspired estate on the Hudson, features 83 sketches and paintings. (NYS106, $24.95)

Hudson River Valley Farms, The People and the Pride Behind the Produce

Hudson River Valley Farms, The People and the Pride Behind the Produce


by Joanne Michaels

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2009
  • HARD COVER
  • 150 PAGES

Joanne Michaels' illustrated compendium of local farms, apiaries, vineyards, dairies and orchards captures the personality, spirit and beauty of 44 farms on the both sides of the Hudson River Valley Ponticou Hills to Castleton-on-Hudson. (NYS103, $29.95)

Hudson Valley Atlas


by Hagstrom

  • REFERENCE
  • 2007
  • MAP
  • 239 PAGES

Detailed maps and sites in Orange, Sullivan, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster, Greene and Columbia counties. (NYS67, $24.95)

The Hudson Valley, A Cultural Guide

The Hudson Valley, A Cultural Guide


by Alliance for the Arts

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • HARD COVER
  • 288 PAGES

Featuring 500 performing-arts centers, museums, historic homes, parks, nature sanctuaries, fairs, and festivals. (NYS101, $29.95)

Gardens of the Hudson Valley

Gardens of the Hudson Valley


by Steve Gross | Susan Daley

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 224 PAGES

Photographers Daley and Gross capture the landscape along the Hudson River and the gardens that have been integrated into it. They have selected 25 gardens, from formal Gilded Age estate gardens to private gardens among the forests and rolling hills. (NYS109, $50.00)

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)

National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic States

National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic States


by Peter Alden | Brian Cassie

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

A compact photographic guide to the wildflowers, trees, mosses, butterflies, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals of the Mid-Atlantic States. (USE73, $19.95)

O Albany!

O Albany!


by William Kennedy

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1983
  • PAPER
  • 402 PAGES

A spirited history, street guide and memoir, subtitled "Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels." (NYS15, $16.00)

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America


by David Sibley

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird with status, habitat, range, voice and identifying marks. (USE262, $19.95)

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)

Henry Hudson, Dreams and Obsession

Henry Hudson, Dreams and Obsession


by Corey Sandler

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 431 PAGES

Sandler combines travelogue with history as he follows in the footsteps of Henry Hudson, from London to Svalbard and New York City, up the Hudson River and into Churchill and Hudson Bay, comparing his own experiences with excerpts from the explorer's own logbooks. (NYS79, $14.95)

River of Mountains, A Canoe Journey Down the Hudson

River of Mountains, A Canoe Journey Down the Hudson


by Peter Lourie

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 327 PAGES

A detailed account of Lourie's three-week journey along the entire length of the Hudson River in a canoe from headwaters to the Statue of Liberty. Lourie interweaves the history of the river with charming descriptions and anecdotes. (USE72, $19.95)

The Hudson River in Literature, An Anthology

The Hudson River in Literature, An Anthology


by Arthur G. Adams

  • ANTHOLOGY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 338 PAGES

A collection of poems and excerpts from novels and essays about life, work and travel on and near the Hudson before the 20th century. With 65 period illustrations of sites and homes. (NYC20, $24.00)

 

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