In the Wilderness

Before glamping there was camping, and it was funnier. Charles Dudley Warner, Mark Twain's friend and collaborator, escapes to the Adirondacks in these witty sketches of woodland life: balky guides and heroic pancakes, deer that refuse to be hunted, nights under dripping canvas, and the sweet absurdity of civilized men pretending to be wild. Beneath the humor runs real love for the forest and its rest. It is vacation literature from 1878 that still lands. Pitch your tent beside his and enjoy the trouble.