When I first got my copy of Martin Podskoch’s new book, “Adirondack 102 Club: Your Passport and Guide to the North Country,” I thought to myself, this will be easy. I’ve traveled Adirondack back roads for years. There’s no way he will have included anything that I haven’t already seen.

Naturally, I was wrong. One never reaches the point of having seen everything in the Adirondacks.

Following up on a concept he’d seen done in Vermont (251 townships in the Green Mountain State, by the way), Podskoch enlisted plenty of help to put together a compendium of brief profiles of each of the 102 townships within the Blue Line.

To be truthful, I have been in many of the locations, but didn’t realize the name of the townships themselves. Still, there were a few isolated places I hadn’t known about at all. Just to name one, I’ve never been to Greig, but when I go, I plan to see the waterfalls.

The book has a few problems. That’s not surprising, I suppose, when you’re gathering the writings of 102 different people. Many are town historians, but there are government officials, assessors and even a few private citizens represented among the contributors. Thus, there’s a range of formats and depth. I learned more from some chapters that others.

Regardless of such variations, the book offers plenty of interesting facts.

Though the region’s population may be more homogeneous than most, there are pockets initially settled by a range of nationalities: Swiss in Croghan, Welsh at Remsen, Palatine Germans in Oppenheim, and Scotch in Broadalbin. For famous people spending time in a remote area, consider Lake Pleasant. Boxers Gene Tunney, Max Baer and Max Schemeling trained there; Kirk Douglas and Karl Malden performed in the local theater.

Webb ranks as the largest township in the entire state of New York. Diana is the only one named for a goddess. Tupper Lake boasts the only synagogue within the Blue Line.

Although farming, forest products, tanning and mining dominated the means of earning livelihoods during early days in the North Country, there was nonetheless a smattering of manufacturing. For instance, there was the calico printing mill in Johnsburg, a glass works in Saranac and a limberger cheese factory in Watson. Woodgate, in the town of Forestport, lays claim to once having the world’s largest icehouse.

Everywhere has trails for hiking, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing. That’s the joy of the Adirondacks, after all. Unfortunately, a 660-foot toboggan run over Fourth Lake in the town of Inlet closed back in 1942. However, you can downhill ski free in the town of Chester, whose slope has a 65-foot drop.

I did note a couple of mistakes. The Rodin sculpture on the Crown Point Memorial Lighthouse is not of Samuel de Champlain; rather it is the relief of a woman’s head, called “La Belle France.” And the river flowing by Chesterfield is the AuSable, not the “amusable,” though I’ll admit to occasionally being amused by the singing waters.

One editorial choice surprised me. This is the type of book I’d like to have ready in my car for reference when I’m exploring, or simply find myself lost. However, it’s a large format hardcover publication that won’t fit inside a glove compartment or console storage area. I also would have appreciated an index of villages, hamlets and notable venues, which are hard to find when you aren’t certain in which town they reside.

It’s a fun volume, though, whether read straight through, as I did for the purpose of a review, or intermittently, as one travels on the road or from an armchair. The author sets out a challenge to go visit each of the 102 townships. Completion qualifies one as a “Vagabond,” a term Podskoch borrows from Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs, who described themselves as such during their famous camping trips.

Watch out, town of Greig! I’ll soon be coming your way.