A fine, interesting and accurate introduction to the Adirondack Mountain region. I read it on vacation along with two other histories,Philip Terrie's Contested Terrain which I found poorly written and lacking focus and Donaldson's A History of the Adirondacks, which is highly entertaining and based on first hand interviews (it was written in the 1920's). There are a few minor errors that the general reader will not notice but her conclusions are sound.