Description: The vast Adirondack region of upstate New York is very much a wilderness, but one ringed by towns and close enough to major cities that it is heavily traveled. Long viewed as a natural playground, the Adirondacks were a favorite haunt of transcendentalist philosophers Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, of conservationists such as Franklin Burroughs and Theodore Roosevelt, of bohemians and hippies, and of back-to-the-land types. Still wild enough that wolf reintroduction has been proposed for the Adirondacks, the territory remains a powerfully inspiring place of refuge and recreation. Paul Schneider tells the story of this river-laced, forested land with imagination and a flair for just the right anecdote.
Description: The definitive study of the geology of Eastern Long Island. Professor Sirkin traces the geologic history of this unique area from the Proterozoic Age forward. The book contains fascinating notes from some of Professor Sirkin's extensive field trips through Eastern Long Island.
Description: First published as United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1991, this book provides a scholarly look at the factors and forces that created the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Colorado. Numerous topographic drawings and diagrams, plus six color plates.
Description: The definitive book on the geology of Block Island, RI. Traces the entire geologic history of this unique ground from Proterozoic Age forward.
