Length6h 5m
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Excerpt: "The smooth highway over which thousands of automobiles skim in long summer processions from Massachusetts to the mountains, coquettes with Chocorua as it winds through the Ossipees. Sometimes it tosses you over a ridge whence the blue bulk and gray pinnacle stand bewitchingly revealed for a second only to be eclipsed in another second by the lesser, nearby beauties of the hill country, and leave you wistful. Sometimes it gives you tantalizing flashes of it through trees or by the gable of a farm-house on a round, hayfield hill, but it is only as you glide down the long incline to the shores of Chocorua Lake that the miracle of revelation is complete. Then indeed you must set your foot hard on the brake and gaze long over the Scudder farm-house gate down a green slope of field to the little lake, and as the eye touches approvingly Mark Robertson's rustic bridge, set in just the right spot to give the human touch to the wild beauty of the landscape, and leaps beyond to the larger lake framed in its setting of dark growth, and on again to the noble lift of the great mountain with its bare pinnacle of gray granite, you realize the grandeur and beauty of this outpost sentinel of the white hills, It is hard to believe that Switzerland or Italy or any other country has anything finer than this to show the traveller."
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Travel
Length6 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 6, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ILLUSTRATIONS
11X MOUNTAIN PASTURES
2I UP CHOCORUA
12XI THE NORTHERN PEAKS
3II BOBOLINK MEADOWS
13XII THE LAKES OF THE CLOUDS
4III CLIMBING IRON MOUNTAIN
14XIII CRAWFORD NOTCH
5IV JUNE ON KEARSARGE
15XIV UP MOUNT JACKSON
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6V RAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS
16XV CARRIGAIN THE HERMIT
7VI CARTER NOTCH
17XVI UP THE GIANT'S STAIRS
8VII UP TUCKERMAN'S RAVINE
18XVII ON MOUNT LAFAYETTE
9VIII ON MOUNT WASHINGTON
19XVIII A MOUNTAIN FARM
10IX MOUNT WASHINGTON BUTTERFLIES
20XIX SUMMER'S FAREWELL
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