Loud adventures and quiet interludes in the air, land, waters of new York's Adirondacks to the rivers, lakes, forests and mountains of Caloifronia, Colorado, Maine, Montana, North Carolina, Vermont, and other points on the physical and emotional compass. This book of stories and poems, printed from metal type on acid-free Mohawk Vellum, was designed to appeal to "armchair adventurers" as well as to backpacking, mountain-climbing, river-kayaking, backwoods-hiking, sky-jockeying explorers who like to expand their wild experiences by toting a volume of good writing as part of their "essential gear".