Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp (American History and Culture)

by Leslie Paris (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $112.52

  For over a century, summer camps have provided many American children's first experience of community beyond their immediate family and neighborhoods. This title chronicles the history of the American summer camp, from its invention in the late nineteenth century through its rise in the first four decades of the twentieth century.