The Hudson
Title | The Hudson PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen P. Stanne |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2021-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1978814054 |
Since 1996, The Hudson has been an essential guide to the full sweep of the great river's natural history and human heritage. This updated third edition includes the latest information about the ongoing fight against pollution, plus vibrant new full-color illustrations showing the plants and wildlife that make this ecosystem so special.
The Hudson
Title | The Hudson PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Lewis |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2007-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300119909 |
Offers a history of the Hudson River, looking at explorers and traders, the arrival of the colonies, how it was transformed, and the landscape.
Environmental History of the Hudson River
Title | Environmental History of the Hudson River PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. Henshaw |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 407 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1438440286 |
Winner of the 2012 Award for Excellence presented by the Greater Hudson Heritage Network The diverse contributions to Environmental History of the Hudson River examine how the natural and physical attributes of the river have influenced human settlement and uses, and how human occupation has, in turn, affected the ecology and environmental health of the river. The Hudson River Valley may be America's premier river environmental laboratory, and by bringing historians and social scientists together with biologists and other physical scientists, this book hopes to foster new ways of looking at and talking about this historically, commercially, and aesthetically important ecosystem. Native people's influences on the ecological integrity of aquatic and shoreline communities were generally local and minor, and for the first 12,000 years or so of human use, the Hudson River was valued mainly as a source of water, food, and transportation. Since the arrival of European colonists, however, commerce has been the engine that has driven development and use of the river, from the harvesting of beaver pelts and timber to the siting of manufacturing industries and power plants, and all of these uses have had pervasive effects on the river's aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. In the meantime, aesthetic movements such as the Hudson River School of painting have sought to recover and preserve the earlier pastoral landscape, anticipating the more recent efforts by environmentalists that have led to dramatic improvements in water quality, shoreline habitats, and fish populations. Despite the pervasive forces of commerce, the Hudson River has retained its world-class scenic qualities. The Upper Hudson remains today a free-flowing, tumbling mountain stream, and the Lower Hudson a fjord penetrated and dominated by the Hudson Highlands. The Hudson's unique history continues to affect current uses and will surely influence the future in remarkable ways.
The Hudson River School
Title | The Hudson River School PDF eBook |
Author | New-York Historical Society |
Publisher | Rizzoli Electa |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2009-10-06 |
Genre | Art |
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Examines art from the Hudson River School, nineteenth-century artists whose work captured the American landscape, including selections from Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, and others; and featuring one hundred reproductions and fold-out pages.
The Hudson Primer
Title | The Hudson Primer PDF eBook |
Author | David L. Strayer |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0520269608 |
This book provides an overview of the ecology of the Hudson River.
The Hudson River Guidebook
Title | The Hudson River Guidebook PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur G. Adams |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780823216796 |
The first comprehensive guide to the Hudson since the works of Ernest Ingersoll were published in the early 1900s, this guidebook arrives to fill the need for a detailed, point-by-point guide to the river from its intersection with the Atlantic to its source in the Adirondacks. Adams offers his reader five routes by which to tour the region. The traveler can venture directly up the main steamboat channel, or choose road and rail routes on the east and west shores of the river. Maps for each route are included, together with suggestions for excursions to many points of local and historical interest along the way. Over 250 photographs and paintings, and excerpts from American authors pepper the book, giving multiple perspectives of the region's long history. For the armchair as well as the actual traveler, from the Abyssal Plain to Doodletown and Chevaux de-Frise, past Anthony's nose, Burden's ironworks, and the Saratoga Battle Field to the Hudson's source at Lake Tear of the Clouds - this is the perfect traveling guide to the Hudson River region, rich in its history and culture, and ever-plentiful in its breathtaking sights.
The Hudson River Estuary
Title | The Hudson River Estuary PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey S. Levinton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2006-01-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521844789 |
The Hudson River Estuary, first published in 2006, is a scientific biography with relevance to similar natural systems.