Adirondack Portraits: A Piece of Time

by Jeanne Robert Foster, Noel Johnson, Adirondack Portraits Jeanne Robert Foster

Book Overview

Adirondack Portraits: A Piece of Time is a moving poetic statement about the Adirondack wilderness and the people who fought the mountains' relentless environment to settle there at the end of the nineteenth century. The book is also about the remarkable Jeanne Robert Foster (1879-1970). Born in poverty in the Adirondacks, as a young woman she emerged in the center of the literary and artistic circles of her day, an associate of Ford Madox...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815602057
• ISBN13: 9780815602057
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"