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HUDSON RIVER VALLEY
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The Air We Breathe
• Andrea Barrett
LITERATURE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
Barrett brings back characters from her National Book Award-winning Ship Fever in this highly marvelous novel, set at a public sanitarium in the northern Adirondacks in 1916. As U.S. involvement in WWI becomes inevitable, the collective 'we' of convalescents narrate a story of fear, yearning and isolation, which parallels the turbulent mood of nation on the brink of war.
(NYS65, $14.95) |
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All That is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School
• 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 an introductory essay on the events, and figures of the Hudson River School. John Driscoll features a diversity of 19th-century Romantic American landscape painters.
(NYS33, $45.00) |
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Backroads of New York, Your Guide to New York's Most Scenic Backroad Adventures
• 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) |
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Catskill Mountain Guide
• 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) |
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Catskill Mountain Guide, Hiking Trails in the Catskills
• Peter Kick
GUIDEBOOK •
2002 •
PAPER
• 237 PAGES
An authoritative, pocket guide to walks and hikes throughout the Catskills, including both easy day hikes and multi-day adventures. With a full-color, pull-out map and 90 detailed trail descriptions. We used our tattered, much travelered edition of Kick's Fifty Hikes in the Hudson Valley for years. The man knows how to put together an enjoyable ramble.
(NYC91, $19.95) |
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An Englishman's Journey along America's Eastern Waterways
• Herbert Holtham
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
The journal of a Unitarian minister from Brighton, England who visited many of the major Northeastern cities in the United States and Canada, and traveled along the six-year-old Erie Canal. With 30 original pencil and ink drawings.
(NYS81, $29.95) |
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Frederic Church's Olana: Architecture and Landscape as Art
• Franklin Kelly
• James Anthony Ryan
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2001 •
HARD COVER
• 103 PAGES
Mr. Ryan chronicles Church's construction of his home. That home, Olana, 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 20 years. He tells how building the innovative house and shaping its surroundings was the largest work of art Church ever did, and the one that took the longest. The introduction by Franklin Kelly, a curator at the National Gallery of Art, sets the scene by briefly describing the arc of the great artist's career and how it was that he came to spend so much of his life on Olana.
(NYS38, $21.95) |
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Glories of the Hudson, Frederic Edwin Church's Views from Olana
• Evelyn D. Trebilcock
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2009 •
HARD COVER
• 96 PAGES
The companion to a special exhibition at Olana in honor of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage up the river, this book contains 83 full-color illustrations. Church never tired of the Hudson River, documenting his passion in numerous paintings, oil sketches and drawings, the best of which are featured in this catalog.
(NYS106, $24.95) |
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Hudson River Valley Farms, The People and the Pride Behind the Produce
• 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) |
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Hudson Valley Atlas
• Hagstrom
REFERENCE •
2007 •
MAP
• 239 PAGES
Detailed maps and sites in Orange, Sullivan, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster, Greene and Columbia counties.
(NYS67, $24.95) |
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The Hudson Valley, A Cultural Guide
• Alliance for the Arts
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
HARD COVER
• 288 PAGES
Produced by the Alliance for the Arts in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Hudson's voyage, this lively guide to the cultural scene in the Hudson Valley includes more than 500 performing-arts centers, museums, historic homes, parks, nature sanctuaries, fairs, and festivals along the Hudson.
(NYS101, $29.95) |
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Gardens of the Hudson Valley
• 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) |
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The Last of the Mohicans
• James Fenimore Cooper
LITERATURE •
1981 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
James Fenimore Cooper's racially complex, anti-nationalist 1826 novel offered early Americans a radical vision of themselves, their history and their future. It's set in rural New York State during the French and Indian War; it's said that then one could walk from Buffalo to New York City under cover of trees.
(NYC24, $4.95) |
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic States
• 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. Apart from its 1,000 photographs, the book also includes an overview of the ecology and habitats of the region and a list of parks and reserves. It covers all of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia and Virginia.
(USE73, $19.95) |
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O Albany!
• 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." Kennedy knows and loves the city, where he spent his childhood and youth and once worked as a reporter. Those who have read Ironweed or Billy Phelan's Greatest Game or any of Kennedy's Albany novels will recognize from his fiction the bars, restaurants, mafiosos and, especially, Albany's unsavory 19th-century politicians.
(NYS15, $16.00) |
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
• 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. It includes 20 pages on the many and confusing species of wood warblers. This is the book we are now using. For birders living west of the Rockies, you'll want to use Sibley's "Birds of Western North America" (USW418).
(USE262, $19.95) |
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Hudson Valley, Catskills Map
• Hagstrom
2005 •
MAP
This handy, laminated overview map shows the Hudson River, east to the Catskills, at a scale of 1:190,000. Two Sides. 20x25 inches.
(NYS71, $8.95) |
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Henry Hudson, Dreams and Obsession
• 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) |
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River of Mountains, A Canoe Journey Down the Hudson
• 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 descriptions of the changing landscapes and anecdotes of the people he met.
(USE72, $19.95) |
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The Hudson River in Literature, An Anthology
• 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. The authors featured include Henry James, Washington Irving, Frederick Church, Anthony Trollope, John Burroughs and Walt Whitman. With 65 period illustrations of the sites and homes described. Arthur Adams is the author of a number of regional books including The Hudson River through the Years.
(NYC20, $27.00) |
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