An Elegant Wilderness: Great Camps and Grand Lodges of the Adirondacks (The Architecture of Leisure), Hardcover, 1st Edition by Gladys Montgomery

Hardcover: 1st Edition Brand New 9780926494473 0926494473 Publication Date: 2011-07-11 Hardcover : 272 pages Edition: 1st Edition Author: Gladys Montgomery ISBN-10: 0926494473 ISBN-13: 9780926494473 Product Description The Victorian Society in America Metropolitan Chapter 2011 Award for Publication-Architectural History The Adirondack Center for Writing 2011 Literary Award-Best Book, Nonfiction The first book to place the rustic Adirondack architectural style in the context of the cultural, social, and environmental history, An Elegant Wilderness, showcases the intensely private retreats set into the pine forests on the shores of the region s shimmering lakes. Open earlier to tourism and more accessible than the western United States, the Adirondack region is where many urbanites of the Industrial Age came to experience the wilderness. It was in the Adirondacks that the constricting social proprieties relaxed, that city swells hunted in deer-filled forests and angled in tr