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Author : H. Schile
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385420938
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Catskill Mountains, Sketched from Nature written by H. Schile and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author : H. Schile
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338542092X
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Catskill Mountains, Sketched from Nature written by H. Schile and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author : H. Schile
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267848997
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (489 download)
Download or read book The Illustration Of The Catskill Mountains written by H. Schile and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Illustration Of The Catskill Mountains: Sketched From Nature, A Special Guide Deservedly do the Americans call their treasure the American Switzerland. And above all, this perfect gem'of Nature's beauty is situated in the immediate neighborhood of the great metropolis. It seems as if the gods, in their inscrutable Wisdom, had or dained that this great city should grow up in the vicinity of the Catskills, that it might have withi1ieasy reach, a place of recreation unsurpassed in the splendor of its scenery. The mountains are not only a source of pleasure to the city inhabitants, but of something far more valuable, which money cannot buy, and that is a sound and healthy condition of mind and body. We shall not dwell upon the beneficial effects of a mountainous climate upon the constitution. Our judgment is of but little value, compared with the protes sioual opinion of such renowned physicians as Doctors Hammond, Loomis, Sayre, etc., Who have repeatedly borne testimony to the indisputable fact that a season spent in the mountainous regions, in the midst of all that is beautiful. Splendid and invigorating, can not be otherwise than beneficial. On all sides our eyes behold divine and awe-inspiring beauty and we turn with a grateful heart to i-iim, the Supreme Architect of the Universe. In submitting this work to the public, we believe we are rendering them a service which ought to secure us their good - will. We furnish the reader a safe guide - book upon which he can implicitly rely. It is not published solely for the purpose of advertising, but, on the contrary, to give the public an idea of the beautiful and romantic country so near at hand. The illustrations furnished are faa'jthful pictures from Nature, taken on the spot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David Stradling
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989890
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Making Mountains written by David Stradling and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein. This collaboration has had environmental, economic, and cultural consequences. Early on, the Catskills were an important source of natural resources. Later, when New York City needed to expand its water supply, engineers helped direct the city toward the Catskills, claiming that the mountains offered the purest and most cost-effective waters. By the 1960s, New York had created the great reservoir and aqueduct system in the mountains that now supplies the city with 90 percent of its water. The Catskills also served as a critical space in which the nation's ideas about nature evolved. Stradling describes the great influence writers and artists had upon urban residents - especially the painters of the Hudson River School, whose ideal landscapes created expectations about how rural America should appear. By the mid-1800s, urban residents had turned the Catskills into an important vacation ground, and by the late 1800s, the Catskills had become one of the premiere resort regions in the nation. In the mid-twentieth century, the older Catskill resort region was in steep decline, but the Jewish "Borscht Belt" in the southern Catskills was thriving. The automobile revitalized mountain tourism and residence, and increased the threat of suburbanization of the historic landscape. Throughout each of these significant incarnations, urban and rural residents worked in a rough collaboration, though not without conflict, to reshape the mountains and American ideas about rural landscapes and nature.
Author : Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Hudson-Fulton Celebration written by Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Hudson-Fulton Exhibition written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Rockwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around written by Charles Rockwell and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walt Meade
Publisher : Purple Mountain PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9780935796209
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (962 download)
Download or read book In the Catskill Mountains written by Walt Meade and published by Purple Mountain PressLtd. This book was released on 1991 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sanford Robinson Gifford
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0300101848
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Hudson River School Visions written by Sanford Robinson Gifford and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2003 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanford Gifford (American, 1823-1880), a leading Hudson River School landscape painter and a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was so esteemed by the New York art world that, at his untimely death, the Museum mounted a show of his work-the first monographic exhibition accorded any artist-and published a Memorial Catalogue that, for nearly a century, remained the principal source on his oeuvre. Gifford's art, which was inspired by the work of Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, and by that of British artist J.M.W. Turner, and enriched by his travels in Europe (from 1855 to 1857, and from 1868 to 1869), came to be called "air painting," for he made the ambient light of each scene-color saturated and atmospherically potent-the key to its expression. His approach to painting and his unique style gave rise to a highly distinctive body of work with enchanting and mesmerizing effect. This publication examines seventy paintings by the artist and includes comparative illustrations of related works by Gifford, his Hudson River School mentors and colleagues, and those painters, in addition to Cole and Turner, who exerted influence on his art, including Frederic Edwin Church and John F. Kensett. The essays discuss Gifford's place in the Hudson River School, his numerous Catskill Mountain subjects, his experiences and perceptions as a traveler both at home and abroad, and the variety of his patrons. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : Washington 1783-1859 Irving
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019560006
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Scenery of the Catskill Mountains as Described by Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Willis Gaylord Clark, N.P. Willis, Miss Martineau, Tyrone Power, Park Benjamin, Thomas Cole, Bayard Taylor written by Washington 1783-1859 Irving and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful volume brings together the writings of some of America's most celebrated authors and artists, all of whom were inspired by the stunning natural beauty of the Catskill Mountains. The book includes descriptions, sketches, and paintings of the region by luminaries such as James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Irving, and William Cullen Bryant. It's a must-have for anyone interested in American literature, art, or natural history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Phil Brown
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231504403
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book In the Catskills written by Phil Brown and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-21 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A nostalgic pastiche of fiction, memoir, photography, art, postcards, menus, etc., celebrating Jewish resort life in the Catskills.”—Providence Journal With selections ranging from literature to song lyrics, this book highlights the Catskills experience over a century, and assesses its continuing impact on American music, comedy, food, culture, and religion. It features selections from such fiction writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Herman Wouk, Allegra Goodman and Vivian Gornick; and original contributions from historians, sociologists, and scholars of American and Jewish culture that trace the history of the region, the rise of hotels and bungalow colonies, the wonderful flavors of food and entertainment, and distinctive forms of Jewish religion found in the Mountains. What was life—the work, the play, the food, the romance—like at Catskills Mountains resorts? These very personal recollections capture the special sense of community and freedom that developed among Jewish families leaving the city behind for a summer vacation and enjoying a cultural space of their own. From “Bingo by the Bungalow” by Thane Rosenbaum to “Young Workers in the Hotels” by Phil Brown to “Shoot the Shtrudel to Me Yudel” by Henry Foner, this charming anthology captures an era that has had enormous impact on the Jewish experience and American culture as a whole. “A warm, charming, and valuable work. Much of the writing is simply gorgeous.”—Contemporary Sociology
Author : Daniel Patterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031334681X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Early American Nature Writers written by Daniel Patterson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the environment is of growing concern to students and general readers, nature writing is especially meaningful. This book profiles the literary careers of 52 early American nature writers, such as John James Audubon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Mabel Osgood Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and discusses the writer's life and works. Entries close with primary and secondary bibliographies, and the encyclopedia ends with suggestions for further reading. Global warming, pollution, and other issues have made the environment a topic of constant discussion these days. Many environmental concerns were treated by early American nature writers, who recognized the beauty of the natural world in an age of commercial expansion. Some of the most famous writers of the 18th and 19th centuries wrote about nature, and their works are stylistic masterpieces. At a time when students are being encouraged to read and write about nonfiction, these masterworks of early American nature writing are all the more important. This book gives students and general readers a welcome introduction to early American nature writers.
Author : Henry Theodore TUCKERMAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Book of the Artists, American artist life, comprising biographical and critical sketches, etc written by Henry Theodore TUCKERMAN and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juliana Chow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108997503
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History written by Juliana Chow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History illuminates how literary experimentation with natural history provides penumbral views of environmental survival. The book brings together feminist revisions of scientific objectivity and critical race theory on diaspora to show how biogeography influenced material and metaphorical concepts of species and race. It also highlights how lesser known writers of color like Simon Pokagon and James McCune Smith connected species migration and mutability to forms of racial uplift. The book situates these literary visions of environmental fragility and survival amidst the development of Darwinian theories of evolution and against a westward expanding American settler colonialism.
Author : Ed Van Put
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632201577
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Trout Fishing in the Catskills written by Ed Van Put and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Van Put begins this important book with the history of native brook trout and offers little-known details about their sizes, range, and demise from over-fishing, the growth of streamside industries, and the introduction of competitive species. Sweeping in its scope, Trout Fishing in the Catskills tells a thorough tale of the often tumultuous history of fishing in the Catskills. With a scope of over a century, Van Put tells of the Catskill’s frontier fishing beginnings and tracks the rise, fall, and eventual revival of the fisheries. Throughout, this is a history of people and methods as well as rivers, and there are profiles of Theodore Gordon, Art Flick, Harry and Elsie Darbee, Sparse Grey Hackle, and more. No serious trout fisherman, in any part of the country, will want to miss this pioneering portrait of a seminal region in American angling history. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Mann
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471594659
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)
Download or read book Landscape Architecture written by William A. Mann and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1993-05-10 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains illustrations of more than 100 notable site plans, all drawn to a common scale. Features timelines of major events and biographies of nearly 200 important people in landscape architecture history. Includes an outline of history relative to environmental design and an extensive glossary of terms related to landscape architecture, architecture, planning, botany, engineering, and art.
