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Canoeing the Adirondacks with Nessmuk: The Adirondack Letters of George Washington Sears

by Dan Brenan

Nessmuk’s Adirondack letters

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Nessmuk’s Adirondack letters

Edited by Dan Brenan, this collection brings together George Washington Sears’s writings for *Forest and Stream*, beginning with a commissioned letter in 1880. The pieces range across canoe travel on Adirondack rivers and streams, mountain climbs, and Sears’s long association with canoe builder J. Henry Rushton. Together, they document how one writer described the region’s waterways and wilderness in a past era, while also tracing the canoe as a practical starting point for entering that landscape. The book is grounded in period writing about outdoor travel and the craft of canoeing.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in historical writing about the Adirondacks and wilderness travel.
  • Canoeing enthusiasts curious about earlier accounts of boats, rivers, and outdoor exploration.
  • Readers exploring George Washington Sears’s work under the name Nessmuk.

Themes

Canoeing and boatbuildingAdirondack waterways and mountainsHistorical wilderness writing

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Book overview

"She's all my fancy painted her, she's lovely, she is light. She waltzes on the waves by day, and rests with me at night. But I had nothing to do with her painting. The man who built her did that. And I commence with the canoe because that is about the first thing you need on entering the Northern Wilderness."--Nessmuk

Thus opened Nessmuk's first commissioned "letter" for Forest and Stream in 1880. For years thereafter, George Washington Sears, under the penname Nessmuk, contributed a glorious series of pieces on canoeing the Adirondacks, exploring rivers and streams, climbing the many mountains and peaks, and chronicling his long relationship with one of the greatest canoe builders, J. Henry Rushton.

These letters brought Nessmuk fame and served to increase the magazine's circulation tremendously. They hold a special place in wilderness writing and unfold in vivid detail the pageantry of the waterways from a bygone era.

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