Andy Flynn, owner of Hungry Bear Publishing of Saranac Lake, recently released an Adirondack Park User’s Guide eBook, “New York’s Adirondack Park: A User’s Guide,” that is currently available in the Kindle platform at Amazon.com. The guide, which was published by Flynn with assistance by friends at the Adirondack Forest Preserve Education Partnership (AFPEP), answers the question—“What is the Adirondack Park?”
Using the Adirondack Park’s leading government, not-for-profit and historical organizations, the “User’s Guide” offers residents and visitors a reference guide from respected sources that helps them responsibly use the Forest Preserve.
It provides informational links to community assets, such as attractions, special events, communications, transportation, tourism organizations, and recreational opportunities.
There are also helpful tips on using the Forest Preserve, hiking, camping, fishing, horseback riding, bicycling and more.
The book includes 13 of Flynn’s stories from his “Adirondack Attic” book series—from the archives of the Adirondack Museum—to help illustrate the “how-to” aspects of using the Forest Preserve and give a historical perspective.
“The stories complement the resource information and educational components of this book by humanizing the six-million-acre Adirondack Park. After all, it’s the people who live in Adirondack communities that make this protected place so special,” Flynn said.
In addition to Flynn’s stories, officials from the New York State Adirondack Park Agency and Department of Environmental Conservation contributed to this
book, along with members of the Adirondack Forest Preserve Education Partnership which includes the DEC, Adirondack Regional Tourism Council, Adirondack Mountain Club, Wildlife Conservation Society, Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program, and Leading Edge.
“It takes a lifetime to really understand the Adirondacks—the people, the zoning, the wilderness, the everything—but this is an excellent primer,” said George DeChant, board member of the Indian Lake Chamber of Commerce.
“With all the links, phone numbers and addresses, you will have enough information to spend a lifetime learning the nooks and crannies of all that is inside the Blue Line.”
The eBook is available for $6.99 at www.amazon.com. The “User’s Guide” includes convenient hyperlinks to the many organizations, attractions, and services throughout the Park.
It includes more than 50 color images and can be read on a variety of electronic devices, including PC, Mac, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, iPad and iPhone with the Kindle Reading App, a free download.
A print version of the book is expected to be released in the summer of 2013. For more information on the ebook, visit www.hungrybearpublishing.com.
