Description: Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks by Hallie E. Bond Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description A history of small craft used from the earliest times, when water was the only highway, to the 20th centurys recreational use of motor boats on the waterways of the Adirondacks. Publisher Description Adirondack history is a tale written o the water. In the Adirondacks, people have traveled, conducted warfare, hunted and fished, gone to church, proposed marriage, and driven logs in, on, from, or by water. Without boats, small and large, Adirondack history--social, recreational, commercial, and environmental--would be an affair entirely different from what we have come to know. In this lavishly illustrated account, Hallie E. Bond presents a history of these boats--canoes, sailboats, power launches, outboards, and the indigenous guideboat--that figure prominently in the overall history of the Adirondacks. The pre-contact Indians paddled dugout and bark canoes; in the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies these craft were joined by skiffs and bateaux. Between 1820 and World War II, a distinctive tradition of boat building developed, culminating in the famous Adirondack guideboat. As the nineteenth century progressed, a variety of small, fresh water, musclepowered boats was produced in the Adirondacks--an assemblage matched by only a few places in the country. There were the canoes and the men that made them famous--John Henry Rushton and Nessmuk--and the guideboats and their builders--H. Dwight Grant and Willard Hanmer. In the early twentieth century, the development of the internal combustion engine irrevocably changed not only boat use and design, but life and leisure in the Adirondacks. Bond skillfully captures the whole panorama of boats and boating in the Adirondacks, from early dugouts and bateaux to the highpowered inboards that won Gold Cup races on Lake George and the Kevlar pack canoes of today. Drawing on her experience as an historian and Curator of Collections and Boats at the Adirondack Museum, Bond places events and trends of the region in the context of national and international history and describes the significant contribution of the Adirondacks in the early twentieth-century development of recreation and travel in America. Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks also includes a descriptive catalog of boats from the museums own collection with nearly two hundred illustrations in addition to those in the narrative, a list of boatbuilders active inthe North Country before 1975, and a valuable glossary of terms. Author Biography Hallie E. Bond is curator of Collections and Boats at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake. She started the now-annual Adirondack Museum No-Octane Regatta. Details ISBN 0815603746 ISBN-13 9780815603740 Title Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks Author Hallie E. Bond Format Paperback Year 1998 Pages 334 Edition New edition Publisher Syracuse University Press GE_Item_ID:18406243; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780815603740
Book Title: Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks
Number of Pages: 334 Pages
Publication Name: Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks
Language: English
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Subject: Boating, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), History, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)
Publication Year: 1998
Item Height: 1.1 in
Item Weight: 42 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 11.1 in
Author: Hallie Bond
Subject Area: Travel, Sports & Recreation, History
Item Width: 8.2 in
Series: Adirondack Museum Bks.
Format: Trade Paperback
