Description: In this work Terrie offers an assessment of the roles that the Adirondacks have played in American history. He brings to life the scientists and scholars, the travellers and sportsmen, the publicists and bureaucrats, who together have contributed to the wilderness aesthetic.
Review Quotes: Terrie, a former Adirondack museum curator, is well qualified to write this excellent historical work. . . A book for all environmentalists.-- "Choice"