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The Adirondack Diaries of John Brown Francis
This is an account of the visits of John Brown Francis (later a five-term governor of Rhode Island) to the vast Adirondack wilderness known as John Brown's tract after the diarist's grandfather, one of the founders of the Brown dynasty in Providence. The elder man had had a grand vision of developing the timber and mineral resources of the tract (210,000 acres, or over 320 square miles), but had been repeatedly thwarted by climatic and environmental obstacles. Even though his personal efforts died with him in 1803, his heirs attempted for decades afterwards to carry out his vision. Descriptions of floods, summer frosts and other difficulties…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7884-0732-1
- EAN: 9780788407321
- Produktnummer: 15410143
- Verlag: Heritage Books Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 134 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.7 cm 179 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 179
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