Where There Are Mountains
Title | Where There Are Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Edward Davis |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
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.
There are Mountains to Climb
Title | There are Mountains to Climb PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Deeds |
Publisher | |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN |
51-year-old Jean Deeds left her comfortable life for a 2,000 mile journey along the Appalachian Trail.
As Long As There Are Mountains
Title | As Long As There Are Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Natalie Kinsey-Warnock |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780613359023 |
Thirteen-year-old Iris loves the northern Vermont hills where she and her family own a farm, but when their barn burns down and her father is injured in a logging accident, the family decides to sell the farm, leaving Iris determined to get her home
Mountains of the Heart
Title | Mountains of the Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Weidensaul |
Publisher | Fulcrum Publishing |
Pages | 363 |
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.
Mountain Nature
Title | Mountain Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Frick-Ruppert |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2010-04-15 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0807898260 |
The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from migrating butterflies to flying squirrels, and from brawny black bears to more species of salamander than anywhere else in the world. Mountain Nature is a lively and engaging account of the ecology of this remarkable region. It explores the animals and plants of the Southern Appalachians and the webs of interdependence that connect them. Within the region's roughly 35 million acres, extending from north Georgia through the Carolinas to northern Virginia, exists a mosaic of habitats, each fostering its own unique natural community. Stories of the animals and plants of the Southern Appalachians are intertwined with descriptions of the seasons, giving readers a glimpse into the interlinked rhythms of nature, from daily and yearly cycles to long-term geological changes. Residents and visitors to Great Smoky Mountains or Shenandoah National Parks, the Blue Ridge Parkway, or any of the national forests or other natural attractions within the region will welcome this appealing introduction to its ecological wonders.
Voices from the Mountains
Title | Voices from the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Guy Carawan |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0820318825 |
A rich mosaic of photographs, words, and songs, Voices from the Mountains tells the turbulent story of the Appalachian South in the twentieth century. Focusing on the abuses of the coal industry and the grassroots struggle against mine owners that began in the 1960s, Guy and Candie Carawan have gathered quotations from a variety of sources; words and music to more than fifty ballads and songs, laments and satires, hymns and protests; and more than one hundred and fifty photographs of longtime Appalachian residents, their homes, their countryside, the mines they work in, and the labor battles they have fought. The "voices" that speak out in these pages range from the mountain people themselves to such well-known artists as Jean Ritchie, Hazel Dickens, Harriet Simpson Arnow, and Wendell Berry. Together they tell of the damage wrought by strip mining and the empty promises of land reclamation; the search for work and a new life in the North; the welfare rights, labor, antipoverty, and black lung movements; early days in the mines; disasters and negligence in the coal industry; and protest and change in the coal fields. Dignity and despair, poverty and perseverance, tradition and change--Voices from the Mountains eloquently conveys the complex panorama of modern Appalachian life.
Mountains from Space
Title | Mountains from Space PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Dech |
Publisher | Harry N Abrams Incorporated |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2005-10 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
Collects images of Earth's mountain ranges in views taken from fifteen to five hundred miles above the planet, revealing complete mountain ranges unobstructed by barriers such as haze, clouds, and light refraction.