Incredible story told in a very low-key way
Martha Reben was a NY city girl who came to Saranac Lake to recover from TB in the early 1900s. When the "fresh air cure" and several surgeries didn't help, she took the drastic step of moving to the woods for the summer. An Adirondack guide took her to a remote campsite on Weller Pond, at the back of the Saranac chain of lakes. She was very weak and made the trip lying on a mattress in the bottom of his boat, but by the end of the summer her health was much improved. She continued to camp out every summer. The places she camped are easily accessible to the public because they are part of NY State's Saranac Lake Island campground (boat access only), so anyone can camp on the exact spots she wrote about starting in 1931. You can find her campsites on a map at https://localwiki.org/hsl/Martha_Reben.
I bought a second copy of this book from Alibris to donate to my daughter's summer house for others to enjoy.