This volume offers 100 photographs to illustrate a history and natural history of Adirondack Park, the first public-private partnership in the US dedicated to the protection of a wilderness area. Gary A. Randorf shows how the park demonstrates the struggle to balance human and natural communities.

The concerns of this park are the same concerns that apply to all of America's parks, recreational areas, and wildernesses, with the addition of how to maintain the fragile peace between human and natural communities. How that "second-chance" can be realized is the focus of Gary Randorf's text and colour photographs.