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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks

Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks

Bond, Hallie

Paperback

Series: Adirondack Museum Books

FictionBoatingGeneral Photography

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0815603746
ISBN13: 9780815603740
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 1998
Pages: 334
Weight: 2.72
Height: 1.13 Width: 8.35 Depth: 11.28
Language: English

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 eighteenth

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