The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park [Paperback]

Jerry B. Jenkins (Author), Andy Keal (Author), Bill McKibben (Foreword)

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press (April 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815607571
• ISBN-13: 978-0815607571
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 11.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #298,324 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Miracle of a Book, Worth a Small Library, October 20, 2004

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Kathryn L. Evans (Caroga Lake, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park (Paperback)

Because a good picture can be worth a thousand words, or quite possibly ten thousand, as demonstrated by the detailed, high quality graphics packing every page of Jenkins' book, his "Adirondack Atlas" (which is ever so much more than an "atlas") truly can be said to contain volumes of fascinating, up-to-date, accurate and pertinent information on our incomparable six-million acre "forever wild" forest park. Indeed, this one model reference book captures in its 267 pages an amount of information equivalent to that found in a small library of the best available books on Adirondack history, politics, geography, geology, ecology and natural history, and then adds considerable information and highly readable interpretation that can be found in no other published work. It is a miracle of a book, the work of a stunning and accomplished intellect.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply a Classic, August 5, 2004

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The United States warrants a series of environmental atlases that provide the geographical, historical, cultural, and ecological information necessary to understand, appreciate, and conserve our natural hertitage. Unfortuantely, we lack these for almost every region. However, in this simply outstanding volume on the Adirondacks Jerry Jenkins has set the standard for any and all future work. An unrivaled natural historian with an unusual quantitative and technical ability, Jerry has produced a volume that will inspire, inform, and motivate everyone into deeper understanding, contemplation, and action. Bill McKibben's foreword suggests that this will become a "most-thumbed book on one's shelf": mine is well on its way.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Entire Library in One Volume, July 27, 2005

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This review is from: The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park (Paperback)

Great graphics, tremendous research, a treasure trove for "data miners" from all spectrums of science - ecology, climatology, sociology, forestry, geology, etc. Once you read this book you will understand the Adirondacks far better than most life-long residents of the region.