The changing Blue Ridge Mountains : essays on journeys past & present
- Title
- The changing Blue Ridge Mountains : essays on journeys past & present / Brent Martin.
- Published by
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2019.
- ©2019
- Author
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- Description
- 141 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "In the eighteenth century, naturalist and artist William Bartram traveled in the Blue Ridge Mountains and spent time documenting both plant life and the customs of the Middle Town Cherokees. Since that time, men and women like Bartram have journeyed through Western North Carolina's wildest and most remote places and written about their experiences. The essays in this volume compare the present day to those historical journeys and explore the idea of wilderness and what change means for the future of the people and the species who live in the mountains. Join local writer and guide Brent Martin on a journey through this incredible landscape"--Page 4 of cover.
- Series statement
- Natural history
- Subject
- Natural areas
- Natural areas > North Carolina
- United States > Blue Ridge Mountains
- Martin, Brent > Travel > North Carolina, Western
- Essays
- Western North Carolina
- Martin, Brent > Travel > Blue Ridge Mountains
- North Carolina
- Wilderness areas > North Carolina
- Blue Ridge Mountains > Description and travel
- Travel
- North Carolina, Western > Description and travel
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Contents
- Foreword / by George Ellison -- "It's a good country; hold on to it" -- Snowbird -- Hunting for camellias at Horseshoe Bend -- The dividing spring -- When the heart can no longer say home -- The sabbatical -- Fish, transformation and thinking like an osprey -- To know a tree -- Three Forks -- Modern Appalachia and the death of the sublime -- Pushing through -- Which way is the wilderness?
- Call number
- JFE 20-719
- Note
- Includes index.
- Author
- Martin, Brent, author.
- Title
- The changing Blue Ridge Mountains : essays on journeys past & present / Brent Martin.
- Publisher
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2019.
- Copyright date
- ©2019
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Series
- Natural history
- Added author
- Ellison, George, 1941-2023, writer of foreword.
- LCCN
- 2019935355
- ISBN
- 9781467142649 paperback
- 1467142646 paperback
- Research call number
- JFE 20-719