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List Price: $45.00Amazonaws.com's Price: $34.20 You Save: $10.80 (24%)
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 974.738
Fabric Type: 9780879511623
Legal Disclaimer: 0879511621
Maximum Color Depth: Overlook Hardcover
Metal Type: Overlook Hardcover
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 848
Total External Bays Free: March 30, 1984
Total Firewire Ports: Overlook Hardcover
Overlook Hardcover
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The Catskills tells the story of one of America's most historically rich and romantic regions. Alf Evers evokes the special charm of the Catskills region with explorations of its flora and fauna, legends, superstitions, and natural and unnatural wonders. Packed with illustrations detailing the history of the Catskills from the time of its first settling through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the Borcht Belt years, the famed Woodstock festival, up to the present, The Catskills is a memorable book that does full justice to a vital vein of our American heritage.
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This is a tremendously well-researched, well written and compelling history of the one of the most important regions in America.
The Catskill Mountains are an ecological, economic and cultural region in southeastern New York State, some four million acres in size, stretching west from the Hudson River.
In his sweeping history of the region, Alf Evers, a historian and life-long native of the region, touches on every aspect of the Catskills, including its legends, lore and ... Read More
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In 1998 and 1999, I spent many of my free weekends in the Catskill Mountains (not too far from where I live), frantically climbing the 35 peaks required for membership in the Catskill Mountain 3500 Club.
As I did, I became more and more interested in the story behind the mystical woods I had become so irrevocably attached to. I learned of this book. I could not find it, but everyone said it was the book to read, referenced in any other book about the region I could find.
Finally ... Read More
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I purchased this book in 1973 for my Father, who was born and raised in Kingston, New York.
Evers' book is a masterpiece-a popularized history of the Catskills, from the days of the Hardenburgh Patent(early 1700s) up to the time of Woodstock(1969 and immediately after). It is a history which presents the facts, but never loses touch with the human dimension.
It is also serious enough to present the facts as hemlock trees, quarries and other resources were successively pillaged ... Read More
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