Four in Camp: A Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire Woods
1905
Four in Camp: A Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire Woods
1905
Nelson Tilford arrives at Camp Chicora carrying nothing but dread. He's heard the stories about camp boys - how they form quick bonds and sharper exclusions. As the New Hampshire woods close around him, he suspects he'll be a stranger all summer. But Mr. Verder, the patient counselor, sees something in Nelson that Nelson doesn't yet recognize. When Tom Ferris and Dan Speede invite him into their cabin, something shifts. What follows is a season of swimming holes and Base Ball, of campfire songs and late-night confidences, of learning to be part of something larger than yourself. Written in 1905, this is the kind of book that remembers childhood's specific anxieties - the terror of being unlikable, the joy of being chosen - and wraps them in the enduring magic of summer in the woods. It's for anyone who ever sat at the edge of a lake, homesick and hopeful, waiting to become who they'd be.
