Notes Collected in the Adirondacks 1895 & 1896

Arpad Geyza Gerster

ISBN 10: 0910020507 / ISBN 13: 9780910020503

Published by The Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, 2010

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AN ADIRONDACKS LITERARY AND VISUAL GEM! "The Fishing and Hunting Diary With Insights of a Physician, Scholar, and Humanist. Edited by Sidney S. Whelan, Jr. With an Introduction by Craig Gilborn." A bright, clean, tight copy sans tears, stains, markings, and discoloration. The New York Times' Outdoor Columnist, Nick Bryant's dustjacket blurb exclaims: "Dr. Arpad Gerster's marvelous journal of his wanderings, musings and observations in the Adirondacks in the late 1890s is a historical treasure and a delight to peruse. A highly intelligent, curious and humanistic man of many talents who was as much at home alone in his light-weight silk tent beside a remote trout pond as he was in an operating room in New York City, he reveled in his beloved lakes and mountains and chronicled what he encountered with unflagging zest." PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED in archival black & white photography and Dr. Gerster's b & w sketches, and maps, all with accompanying descriptive captions. 188 pages. LBSW6.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes Collected in the Adirondacks 1895 & 1896
• Publisher: The Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0910020507
• ISBN 13: 9780910020503
• Binding: Pictorial Wraps Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued

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Synopsis

Sid Whelan has been transcribing the diaries of Arpad Gerster since 1990. Arpad Gerster was a Hungarian surgeon who emigrated to the United States in the 1870s. A man of extraordinary interests and powers of observation, he was a linguist, musician, artist, traveler, writer, in addition to conducting an exemplary career in medicine. His diaries chronicling his visits to the Adirondacks (Raquette and Long Lakes) from 1895 to the early 1900s are a unique and exceptionally vivid and astute record of the region in that time period.