1/28/08

Book of the Week #5


Our Mountain Trips (Part I - 1899 to 1908): Being Authentic Accounts of Camping, Packing, and Tramping in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. By Ida Rachel Butterfield James, Lucy Ardena Butterfield, and Walter H. James; Edited by Ben English, Jr. and Jane English. (Littleton, NH: Bondcliff Books, 2005)


Our Mountain Trips (Part II - 1909 to 1926): Being Authentic Accounts of Camping, Packing, and Tramping in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. By Ida Rachel Butterfield James, Lucy Ardena Butterfield, and Walter H. James; Edited by Ben English, Jr. and Jane English. (Littleton, NH: Bondcliff Books, 2007)



Travelling in New Hampshire's White Mountains is a popular pastime and has been for over 100 years. These books are based on the journals and scrapbooks of a pair of Boston professionals who made "trips to the woods and mountains for recreateion and spiritual nourishment." (part I, p. 7) at the turn of the twentieth century. The books include many beautiful black and white images (the Sabbaday Falls photo on p. 71 of Part I is particularly stunning.) The first hand accounts of camping -- mud, mosquitos, and the magnificent peace and beauty of the mountains -- make these books interesting reading. The editors are the grandchildren of the authors.

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