Eye-witness impressions written a century and a half ago as a series of articles in the London Illustrated News. The Author, with sketchbook always in hand traveled by horse and carriage along the banks of the Hudson River, from New York City to the Adirondacks, staying in local inns and looking up local storytellers and historians. The Author unforgettably captured pre-Civil War America, when NYC numbered 300,000 people, and every inch of the Hudson River Valley was pastureland and farmland surrounding a few sleepy villages and a handful of bustling river ports. Introduction by Pete Seeger.
6x9, 400 pages, illustrations, paper
$19.95
ISBN 1-883789-26-5