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

  Available June 1, 2008

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Over the years, many of Monadnock’s visitors have attempted to explain its strange power to help resolve their personal problems. Is it because of the magical ley lines that cross over the mountain, or is Monadnock the spiritual "guardian of the east" mirroring Mt. Shasta in the west? Readers today can use the maps she included in her book to follow their own spiritual path and find their own way to renewal on Mount Monadnock.

"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

Elizabeth Weston Timlow (1861-1930) was a lecturer, an early feminist, a mountain climber, the author of seven children’s books, and the principal of a prestigious boarding school for girls in Washington, D.C. She visited Monadnock every summer from 1900 until her death in 1930 and is buried in Fitzwilliam, N.H. within sight of her beloved Mount Monadnock.

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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