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The Hudson

- Anniversary

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  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 338 sider

Beskrivelse

A prolific writer of prose, poetry, and regional history, Carl Carmer first gained national attention with Stars Fell n Alabama, a book about Alabama folkways. But it is his writings about upstate New York, where he was born and lived for much of his life, that firmly established him as a folk historian and master storyteller. The Hudson, originally published in 1939, is the most popular of these writings.

Best of the Rivers of America series, The Hudson is less a formal historical account of the discovery and development of the river that a personal, anecdotal view of it. Included are tales of white-sailed sloops and steamboats racing from Albany to New York; of old whalers and trader sea dogs of the Catskill shore; of showboats playing anti-rent meoldramas to incite farmers against their landlords; of great disasters and heroic deeds; of the efforts of the Hudson River School to capture "sublimity" on canvas; of the quarrelsome, rough-and-tumble life of the Dutch along the river's banks, and many more.

This commemorative fiftieth anniversary edition features 16 new drawings by Hudson River artist Edward J. McLaughlin, a foreward by New York historian Louis C. Jones, and an afterword by Roger Panetta, professor of history at the College of New Rochelle.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal338
  • Udgivelsesdato01-01-1989
  • ISBN139780823212262
  • Forlag Fordham University Press
  • FormatPaperback
  • Udgave50
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt680 g
  • Dybde2,5 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
    book img
    17,1 cm
    24,9 cm

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