{"product_id":"the-tracy-log-book","title":"The Tracy Log Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fascinating illustrated diary of the first summer visitors, including the artist Frederic Church, to Mount Desert Island, Maine, in 1855.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Tracy diary offers us the unique opportunity to accompany 27 nineteenth century travelers on an adventure of a lifetime, exploring Mount Desert Island, Maine, in August of 1855. This first group of summer visitors was a distinguished company and hailed primarily from New York, Hartford and Boston.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In addition to Charles Tracy, a prominent New York lawyer, whose descendants through his son, Charles, daughter, Francis, and son-in-law, J. Pierpont Morgan, continue to summer on the island. The traveling party also included Frederic Edwin Church, a leading Hudson River School artist, and his friend, Theodore Winthrop, who died gallantly in the opening battle of the Civil War and then became posthumously famous as a novelist.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e After more than 170 years, Church’s playful sketches have been reunited with the first-hand account penned by Tracy, whose words strike a familiar chord in the memory of all who return again and again to the beauty and variety of Mount Desert Island.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIncludes a folded, full-color map of Mount Desert Island in 1855, created for this new edition by famed illustrator Pete Gergely.","brand":"Charles Tracy","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50954605887727,"sku":"9788833674001","price":60.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/0903\/9343\/files\/BNCImageAPI_cb6acc3d-6d6a-42ae-bb0b-4a3e74d2078f.jpg?v=1791236525","url":"https:\/\/mandagroup.shop\/products\/the-tracy-log-book","provider":"MandaGroup","version":"1.0","type":"link"}