Because I have ADD, I like to do an occasional book review to go along with all the hiking, backpacking, canoeing, camping, history, and national park write ups (along with other assorted nonsense) that I do for this esteemed website.  Today’s book is Christine Miller’s Josephine’s Wilderness Adventure: A Trip to Shenandoah National Park, which came out last month.  I’m not particularly good at writing reviews, so in case it wasn’t clear in the review below – I really enjoyed this book!

Josephine’s Wilderness Adventure: A Trip to Shenandoah National Park by Christine Miller Triple Peaks Press Publishing – 2022 123 pages

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Artifacts: An Illustrated Treasury of Delaware Valley History Written and Illustrated by Hal Taylor Published by Hal Taylor, 2020 pg 241 https://www.haltaylorillustration.com/

Remember that time we went to New Castle (not in South Jersey) with Hal Taylor?  He wrote that book that we loved about the early settlement of the Delaware Valley, a book way more entertaining and exciting than I thought a book about the early settlement of the Delaware Valley could ever be?  There was tons of history, PANTSLOADS of history (sorry, been reading Dragons Love Tacos too many times).

Hal’s the one on the right.

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Because I have ADD, I like to do an occassional book review to go along with all the hiking, backpacking, canoeing, camping, history, and national park write ups (along with other assorted nonsense) that I do for this esteemed website.  Today’s book is William J. Lewis’s New Jersey’s Lost Piney Culture, which came out last month.  I’m not particularly good at writing reviews, so in case it wasn’t clear in the review below – I really enjoyed this book!

New Jersey’s Lost Piney Culture by William J Lewis The History Press – 2021 141 pages

First time author William Lewis decided to tackle the question – what is a [...]

AMC’s Best Day Hikes in New Jersey: Four-Season Guide to 50 of the Best Trails in the Garden State, From the Skylands to the Shore by Priscilla Estes 294 pages Appalachian Mountain Club Books, Boston, MA – 2019

So I decided that I’d start actually reading some of the many New Jersey hike books (which generally upset me by ignoring South Jersey… hence, this blog exists) and seeing what I like and hate about them, just in case I totally loose my mind and actually write a book one day…

AMC’s Best Day Hikes in New Jersey by Priscilla Estes is the second one up, because she was nice enough to send me a copy with a nice little note in it.

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