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The Hudson River Guidebook
Contributor(s): Adams, Arthur G. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0823216799     ISBN-13: 9780823216796
Publisher: Fordham University Press
OUR PRICE: $99.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1996
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Annotation: This book describes the river and shorelines point by point, with historical background. Emphasis is upon points as seen from the water. Inland points of interest are also covered in self-guiding road routes along either shore.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | United States - General
Dewey: 917.47
LCCN: 96001894
Lexile Measure: 1240(Not Available)
Physical Information: 1.37" H x 8.8" W x 11.27" L (3.43 lbs) 430 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - New Jersey
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation - New York
Features: Maps
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
The first comprehensive guide to the Hudson since the works of Ernest Ingersoll were published in the early 1900s, this guidebook arrives to fill the need for a detailed, point-by-point guide to the river from its intersection with the Atlantic to its source in the Adirondacks. Adams offers his reader five routes by which to tour the region. The traveler can venture directly up the main steamboat channel, or choose road and rail routes on the east and west shores of the river. Maps for each route are included, together with suggestions for excursions to many points of local and historical interest along the way. Over 250 photographs and paintings, and excerpts from American authors pepper the book, giving multiple perspectives of the region's long history. For the armchair as well as the actual traveler, from the Abyssal Plain to Doodletown and Chevaux de-Frise, past Anthony's nose, Burden's ironworks, and the Saratoga Battle Field to the Hudson's source at Lake Tear of the Clouds - this is the perfect traveling guide to the Hudson River region, rich in its history and culture, and ever-plentiful in its breathtaking sights.

Contributor Bio(s): Adams, Arthur G.: - Arthur G. Adams is founding president of the Hudson River Maritime Center at Roundabout Landing in Kingston. In 1981, he was given a special award of merit for outstanding achievement in Regional Studies by the State University of New York. He is Executive Vice President of the Hudson River Navigation Company is trustee of the Victor Herbert Performance Trust Fund.
 
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