25 Roxbury Street,  Keene NH 03431 (603) 499-6500

  Available Aug 15, 2008

Our Story

At an age when many others might be spending their time in a rocking chair, Dick is out almost every day hiking, paddling or cycling around the region.

He's divided his columns into four sections, one each for hiking, paddling, cycling and observing and has added many photos from his adventures.

These adventures require no special equipment or skills. Nearly anyone of any age can follow in his footsteps. Or, armchair hikers can sit near the wood stove on a winter evening while Dick describes his adventures.

"In the  newly published "Monadnock: More than a Mountain," Craig Brandon offers a sweeping and colorful history of what is the most climbed peak in North America."

Jan Gardner, Boston Globe.

"Brandon's book is a very worthy descendant of Allen Chamberlain's stalwart history "Annals of the Grand Monadnock...Brandon has touched on the breadths and heights of the historical Monadnock mosaic -- the mysteries of Pumpelly Cave and the Monadnock Roar, the human stunts and triumphs, plane crashes and the Dean murder, stories of summit fire wardens and refreshment stands, the pre-burned Halfway House with stables for 100 horses, the astounding cultural and artistic tributes."

Steve Sherman The Keene Sentinel

Mount Monadnock in Southern New Hampshire is hiker superhighway. It's the most climbed mountain in North America, but there are still secret caves and inscribed rocks that few hikers visit.

It also has a long cultural history that dates from Thoreau and Emerson in the 19th century and includes hundreds of paintings that hang in prestigious museums and hundreds of poems. There are even symphonies and operas that have been written about it.

Monadnock: More than a Mountain is a biography of America's most beloved mountain, including the fascinating story of how it was preserved, beginning in 1883 with the town of Jaffrey saving 500 acres from development and continuing today with the effort to protect the mountain zone.

You can also read about the mysterious Pumpelly Cave, the secret of the mechanical devices to count hikers, the three airplanes that crashed into the mountain, the Dublin man who died of exposure in 1920, the mysterious Monadnock "roar," and the famous people who hiked Monadnock over the years.

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