The Appalachians
Author | : Maurice Brooks |
Publisher | : Seneca Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1995-03 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Maurice Brooks |
Publisher | : Seneca Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1995-03 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Linda Goodman |
Publisher | : The Overmountain Press |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781570720987 |
The author introduces six unique women, each of whom offers a rare glimpse of a culture that is fast fading away. As you share their joys and sorrows, these women will touch your soul and live in your heart.
Author | : Lori Finley |
Publisher | : John F. Blair, Publisher |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780895871145 |
Includes rides in the Boone-Blowing Rock-Linville area of northwest N.C. and Mt. Rogers National Recreation Area, the New River Trail State Park, and the Virginia Creeper Trail in southwest Virginia
Author | : Scott Weidensaul |
Publisher | : Fulcrum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2016-05-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1938486897 |
Part natural history, part poetry, Mountains of the Heart is full of hidden gems and less traveled parts of the Appalachian Mountains Stretching almost unbroken from Alabama to Belle Isle, Newfoundland, the Appalachians are one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world. In Mountains of the Heart, renowned author and avid naturalist Scott Weidensaul shows how geology, ecology, climate, evolution, and 500 million years of history have shaped one of the continent's greatest landscapes into an ecosystem of unmatched beauty. This edition celebrates the book's 20th anniversary of publication and includes a new foreword from the author.
Author | : Donald Edward Davis |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820340219 |
A timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment. Incorporating a wide variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the study draws information from several viewpoints and spans more than four hundred years of geological, ecological, anthropological, and historical development in the Appalachian region. The book begins with a description of the indigenous Mississippian culture in 1500 and ends with the destructive effects of industrial logging and dam building during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Donald Edward Davis discusses the degradation of the southern Appalachians on a number of levels, from the general effects of settlement and industry to the extinction of the American chestnut due to blight and logging in the early 1900s. This portrait of environmental destruction is echoed by the human struggle to survive in one of our nation's poorest areas. The farming, livestock raising, dam building, and pearl and logging industries that have gradually destroyed this region have also been the livelihood of the Appalachian people. The author explores the sometimes conflicting needs of humans and nature in the mountains while presenting impressive and comprehensive research on the increasingly threatened environment of the southern Appalachians.
Author | : Mari-Lynn Evans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
In a time when the world has become a global village and America a global nation, there is one place where things are largely as they used to be. Protected by mountains, largely ignored by modern industry and developers, Appalachia is America’s first and last frontier. Encom-passing more than 195,000 square miles in thirteen states, it possesses the least understood and most underappreciated culture in the United States. A beautifully produced companion volume to the PBS documentary narrated by Naomi Judd, The Appalachians fills the void in information about the region, offering a rich portrait of its history and its legacy in music, literature, and film. The text includes essays by some of Appalachia’s most respected scholars and journalists; excerpts from never-before-published diaries and journals; firsthand recollections from native Appalachians including Loretta Lynn, Ricky Skaggs, and Ralph Stanley; indigenous song lyrics and poetry; and oral histories from common folk whose roots run strong and deep. The book also includes more than one hundred illustrations, both archival and newly created. Here is a wondrous book celebrating a unique and invaluable cultural heritage.
Author | : Loyal Jones |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 081318424X |
It is said that Bascom Lamar Lunsford would "cross hell on a rotten rail to get a folk song"—his Southern highlands folk-song compilations now constitute one of the largest collections of its kind in the Library of Congress—but he did much more than acquire songs. He preserved and promoted the Appalachian mountain tradition for generations of people, founding in 1928 the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville, North Carolina, an annual event that has shaped America's festival movement. Loyal Jones pens a lively biography of a man considered to be Appalachian music royalty. He also includes a "Lunsford Sampler" of ballads, songs, hymns, tales, and anecdotes, plus a discography of his recordings.
Author | : W. C. Jameson |
Publisher | : august house |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780874831269 |
Collects legends and lore of buried treasure in the southern Appalachian Mountain area, with maps showing locations
Author | : John Alexander Williams |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2003-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807860522 |
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions of the region as both the essence of America and a place apart. Williams begins his story in the colonial era and describes the half-century of bloody warfare as migrants from Europe and their American-born offspring fought and eventually displaced Appalachia's Native American inhabitants. He depicts the evolution of a backwoods farm-and-forest society, its divided and unhappy fate during the Civil War, and the emergence of a new industrial order as railroads, towns, and extractive industries penetrated deeper and deeper into the mountains. Finally, he considers Appalachia's fate in the twentieth century, when it became the first American region to suffer widespread deindustrialization, and examines the partial renewal created by federal intervention and a small but significant wave of in-migration. Throughout the book, a wide range of Appalachian voices enlivens the analysis and reminds us of the importance of storytelling in the ways the people of Appalachia define themselves and their region.
Author | : Deanna Edens |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2015-03-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781532857683 |
Angels of the Appalachians is a fresh and endearing tale, filled with folksy phrases and amusing adages of the Southern United States. It's the story of two women who meet in 1980, gray-haired Erma telling her life story to Annie, a young college student living in Charleston, West Virginia. The tale she tells is also of two women, and their adventures beginning in the coalfields of Red Ash, growing up near Thurmond, and eventually finding their way to Charleston in 1915. Strong mountain women, historical places, faith, and grief are themes explored in this account of a friendship that spans across decades. You will find yourself wishing to call on the fine folks of the Appalachian Mountains, relax for a spell, and stumble upon the angels who made West Virginia so gloriously wild and wonderful.