GUIDE-BOAT DAYS AND WAYS. Gathered and edited by Kenneth Durant.

Published by the Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, second printing, 1971.

Guide-Boat Days and Ways is an anthology chronicling the golden age of the Adirondack guideboat. It includes journals, logs, and personal memoirs by those who guided their boats through the wilderness, some filled with merchandise, some with timber, some with tourists. The book provides a rather comprehensive "I was there" look at the guideboat in action. The book also discusses some of the construction techniques that made the guideboat able to carry heavy loads while remaining agile in the water and easy to portage over land.

Softcovers, 6x9 inches, 267 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece fold-open "Map of the New York Wilderness" that was originally published in 1867, and a few other b&w illustrations here and there.

GOOD condition, light offsetting to the cover margins, otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A nice, solid copy.