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We feature a handpicked selection of travel guides, maps, literature, books on art, nature and culture, all designed to help you get more out of your travels to Hudson River Valley. Order an essential package, and we'll ship any additional items for free.
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Moon Handbook Hudson River Valley
Nikki Goth Itoi
GUIDEBOOK 2008 PAPER 256 PAGES
A practical guide in the popular series, featuring background on history, culture, nature and attractions.
(NYC154, $16.95)
The Hudson, A History
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)
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 history of the river with descriptions of the changing landscapes and anecdotes of the people he met.
(USE72, $19.95)
The Hudson River, From Tear of the Clouds to Manhattan
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)
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.
(NYS71, $8.95)
East Hudson Trails Map
New York-New Jersey Trail Conferenc
A three map set covering hikes and trails in the Hudson Highland and Fahnestock State Parks.
(NYC142, $9.95)
Hudson Valley Atlas
Hagstrom
REFERENCE
Detailed maps and sites in Orange, Sullivan, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster, Greene and Columbia counties.
(NYS67, $24.95)
Hudson Valley Map
JIMAPCO
A road map of the Hudson River Valley from Albany to New York City, at a scale of 1:270,000. With a detailed view of the Catskills, much of Dutchess County, Hudson and other areas of interest.
(USE199, $4.95)
50 Hikes in the Lower Hudson Valley, Hikes and Walks from Westchester County to Albany
Stella Green
Neil Zimmerman
GUIDEBOOK
An expert, up-to-date guide to exploring parks and reserves, most close to New York City.
(NYC90, $16.95)
Backroads of New York, Your Guide to New York's Most Scenic Backroad Adventures
Kim Knox Beckius
GUIDEBOOK
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, Hiking Trails in the Catskills
Peter Kick
GUIDEBOOK
An authoritative, pocket guide to walks and hikes throughout the Catskills.
(NYC91, $19.95)
Fodor's New York City's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
A shirt-pocket guide to New York City, featuring a detailed, fold-out map centered on Midtown. With suggested itineraries, walks and top 25 sights.
(USE36, $11.95)
Hudson River Journey
Joanne Michaels
Hardie Truesdale
GUIDEBOOK
A photo-essay on suggested places to visit in the Hudson River Valley.
(NYC98, $29.95)
Hudson Valley & Catskill Mountains, An Explorer's Guide, Includes Saratoga Springs & Albany
Joanne Michaels
GUIDEBOOK
A popular, practical guide.
(NYS56, $19.95)
Insiders' Guide to the Hudson River Valley
Sheila Buff
GUIDEBOOK
COMING IN DECEMBER
A comprehensive guide to the history, art and architecture, farms and towns of the Hudson River Valley, geared for visitors and residents.
(NYS72, $17.95)
The Traveler's Guide to the Hudson River Valley
Tim Mulligan
Stan Skardinski
GUIDEBOOK
An insightful, well informed guide to where to go and what to do along both sides of the Hudson from Saratoga Springs to New York City.
(USE197, $17.95)
Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point
Stephen Ambrose
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Andrew J. Goodpaster
HISTORY
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, $20.95)
Life Along the Hudson
Allan Keller
Alfred Marks
HISTORY
A brief, lively portrait of the Hudson from its discovery through modern times, with illustrations and tours through the region's stately mansions.
(USE196, $26.95)
The House the Rockefellers Built, A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America
Robert F., Jr. Dalzell
HISTORY
A cultural history of Kykuit, the dynastic seat built high above the Hudson River, home to three generations of the Rockefeller family.
(NYS75, $18.00)
The Hudson, America's River
Frances Dunwell
HISTORY
A richly illustrated, authoritative history from Dutch settlements to modern day issues.
(NYS68, $29.95)
The Island at the Center of the World, The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America
Russell Shorto
HISTORY
Shorto's popular history of New Amsterdam tells in colorful detail how the short-lived Dutch colony established the principles of tolerance, multiculturalism and modern capitalism
(NYC153, $15.95)
All That is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School
John Driscoll
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A collection of 78 full-page color reproductions of paintings from the Hudson River School, along with short introductory essays.
(NYS33, $45.00)
Frederic Church
John K. Howat
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An illustrated study of landscape painter Frederic Church of the Hudson River School. John K. Howat is Curator Emeritus at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(NYS45, $55.00)
Frederic Church's Olana: Architecture and Landscape as Art
Franklin Kelly
James Anthony Ryan
ART & ARCHITECTURE
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)
Knights of the Brush, The Hudson River School and the Moral Landscape
James F. Cooper
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A critical study of the Hudson River School, looking at the moral obligations and concerns of artists such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Church.
(USE198, $39.95)
O Albany!
William Kennedy
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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 Hudson River in Literature, An Anthology
Arthur G. Adams
ANTHOLOGY
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, $21.95)
North River
Pete Hamill
LITERATURE
Wounded in the war, abandoned by his wife and daughter, threatened by the mob, Dr. James Finbar Delanay improbably finds love in Hamill's rich tale, evocatively set in the 1930s West Village.
(NYS57, $25.99)
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
LITERATURE
The first of the Leatherstocking Tales, ames Fenimore 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
Washington Irving
LITERATURE
Traveling to the Hudson River Valley? Stay awake nights with this great, suspenseful yarn -- or rest easy and read some of the American master's gentler short works.
(NYC23, $8.95)
The Hudson River
Gregg Miller
NATURAL HISTORY
One hundred panoramic photos capture the natural beauty of this majestic river and its attractions through the seasons. Produced in aaasocaition with Scenic Hudson.
(NYS73, $50.00)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic States
Peter Alden
Brian Cassie
FIELD GUIDE
A compact photographic guide to the wildflowers, trees, mosses, butterflies, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals of the Mid-Atlantic States.
(USE73, $19.95)
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
David Sibley
FIELD GUIDE
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)
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