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A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks

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Availability:In StockContributor:James SchlettAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2016-05-03Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501704451ISBN-10:1501704451UPC:9781501704451Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, HistoricalBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SC60EPGGGV

A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks

In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon, organized a camping expedition for some of America's preeminent intellectuals to Follensby Pond in the Adirondacks. Dubbed the "Philosophers' Camp," the trip included the Swiss American scientist and Harvard College professor Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, the Republican...

Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501704451ISBN-10:1501704451UPC:9781501704451Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, HistoricalBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SC60EPGGGV

James Schlett is an award-winning journalist whose feature and business writing has been recognized by the New York Newspaper Publishers Association and the New York State Associated Press Association. He lives in Rotterdam, N.Y.


Publisher: Cornell University Press

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