Author: Eliot Porter
Publisher: Bristol Park Books
ISBN: 9780884860129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The photography of Eliot Porter captures the majestic beauty of the Appalachian wilderness. In the contrast, the harsh human history--the blighting force of today's industrial tourism, the sad fate of the Cherokee Indians, and the mountaineers--is sensitively recorded by Abbey. 45 color illustrations. $37.50 value.
Appalachian Wilderness
Author: Eliot Porter
Publisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN: 9780525056867
Category : Appalachian Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Publisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN: 9780525056867
Category : Appalachian Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
F*ckface
Author: Leah Hampton
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250259584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Named a Best Book of 2020 by Slate, Electric Literature, and PopMatters F*ckface is a brassy, bighearted debut collection of twelve short stories about rurality, corpses, honeybee collapse, and illicit sex in post-coal Appalachia. The twelve stories in this knockout collection—some comedic, some tragic, many both at once—examine the interdependence between rural denizens and their environment. A young girl, desperate for a way out of her small town, finds support in an unlikely place. A ranger working along the Blue Ridge Parkway realizes that the dark side of the job, the all too frequent discovery of dead bodies, has taken its toll on her. Haunted by his past, and his future, a tech sergeant reluctantly spends a night with his estranged parents before being deployed to Afghanistan. Nearing fifty and facing new medical problems, a woman wonders if her short stint at the local chemical plant is to blame. A woman takes her husband’s research partner on a day trip to her favorite place on earth, Dollywood, and briefly imagines a different life. In the vein of Bonnie Jo Campbell and Lee Smith, Leah Hampton writes poignantly and honestly about a legendary place that’s rapidly changing. She takes us deep inside the lives of the women and men of Appalachia while navigating the realities of modern life with wit, bite, and heart.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250259584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Named a Best Book of 2020 by Slate, Electric Literature, and PopMatters F*ckface is a brassy, bighearted debut collection of twelve short stories about rurality, corpses, honeybee collapse, and illicit sex in post-coal Appalachia. The twelve stories in this knockout collection—some comedic, some tragic, many both at once—examine the interdependence between rural denizens and their environment. A young girl, desperate for a way out of her small town, finds support in an unlikely place. A ranger working along the Blue Ridge Parkway realizes that the dark side of the job, the all too frequent discovery of dead bodies, has taken its toll on her. Haunted by his past, and his future, a tech sergeant reluctantly spends a night with his estranged parents before being deployed to Afghanistan. Nearing fifty and facing new medical problems, a woman wonders if her short stint at the local chemical plant is to blame. A woman takes her husband’s research partner on a day trip to her favorite place on earth, Dollywood, and briefly imagines a different life. In the vein of Bonnie Jo Campbell and Lee Smith, Leah Hampton writes poignantly and honestly about a legendary place that’s rapidly changing. She takes us deep inside the lives of the women and men of Appalachia while navigating the realities of modern life with wit, bite, and heart.
40 Days in the Wilderness
Author: Dale Clem
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938842290
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Like Thoreau's "Walden," Dale Clem's account of his 40-day trek on the Appalachian Trail is part hiking journal, part religious, spiritual and philosophical meditation. Clem muses about how the landscapes he traverses reflect and inform our lives, passions, social values, darker impulses and relationship with God. Along the way, he meets a wide variety of hikers, each with their unique issues - sons in troubled relationships with their fathers, women discovering independence and courage, soldiers returning from war trying to reenter civilian life, and more. Positing that walking in nature can heal psychic wounds of all sorts, Clem's personal quest is a prayer journey that also goes inward - he questions his motivation and purpose in life, seeks to mend wounds of his own and pursues closer communion with God. Yet he never fails to appreciate and celebrate the joys and beauty of the American wilderness and the camaraderie of his fellow hikers whose generosity affirms what is best in us.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938842290
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Like Thoreau's "Walden," Dale Clem's account of his 40-day trek on the Appalachian Trail is part hiking journal, part religious, spiritual and philosophical meditation. Clem muses about how the landscapes he traverses reflect and inform our lives, passions, social values, darker impulses and relationship with God. Along the way, he meets a wide variety of hikers, each with their unique issues - sons in troubled relationships with their fathers, women discovering independence and courage, soldiers returning from war trying to reenter civilian life, and more. Positing that walking in nature can heal psychic wounds of all sorts, Clem's personal quest is a prayer journey that also goes inward - he questions his motivation and purpose in life, seeks to mend wounds of his own and pursues closer communion with God. Yet he never fails to appreciate and celebrate the joys and beauty of the American wilderness and the camaraderie of his fellow hikers whose generosity affirms what is best in us.
Appalachian Wilderness
Author: Eliot Porter
Publisher: Bristol Park Books
ISBN: 9780884860129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The photography of Eliot Porter captures the majestic beauty of the Appalachian wilderness. In the contrast, the harsh human history--the blighting force of today's industrial tourism, the sad fate of the Cherokee Indians, and the mountaineers--is sensitively recorded by Abbey. 45 color illustrations. $37.50 value.
Publisher: Bristol Park Books
ISBN: 9780884860129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The photography of Eliot Porter captures the majestic beauty of the Appalachian wilderness. In the contrast, the harsh human history--the blighting force of today's industrial tourism, the sad fate of the Cherokee Indians, and the mountaineers--is sensitively recorded by Abbey. 45 color illustrations. $37.50 value.
A History of Appalachia
Author: Richard B. Drake
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813190600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of oil, gas, and coal resources. Today, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Richard Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813190600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of oil, gas, and coal resources. Today, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Richard Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region."--BOOK JACKET.
Wilderness
Author: Debra Bloomfield
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826354297
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"In the five-year period beginning in 2007, Debra Bloomfield undertook her third photographic landscape project: Wilderness. The photographs she created tell us what wilderness means and how to care about it, appreciate it, value its existence, and be concerned about its future"--
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826354297
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"In the five-year period beginning in 2007, Debra Bloomfield undertook her third photographic landscape project: Wilderness. The photographs she created tell us what wilderness means and how to care about it, appreciate it, value its existence, and be concerned about its future"--
The United States of Appalachia
Author: Jeff Biggers
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 158243994X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Few places in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, yet no other area has been so markedly mischaracterized by the mass media. Stereotypes of hillbillies and rednecks repeatedly appear in representations of the region, but few, if any, of its many heroes, visionaries, or innovators are ever referenced. Make no mistake, they are legion: from Anne Royall, America's first female muckraker, to Sequoyah, a Cherokee mountaineer who invented the first syllabary in modern times, and international divas Nina Simone and Bessie Smith, as well as writers Cormac McCarthy, Edward Abbey, and Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck, Appalachia has contributed mightily to American culture — and politics. Not only did eastern Tennessee boast the country's first antislavery newspaper, Appalachians also established the first District of Washington as a bold counterpoint to British rule. With humor, intelligence, and clarity, Jeff Biggers reminds us how Appalachians have defined and shaped the United States we know today.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 158243994X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Few places in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, yet no other area has been so markedly mischaracterized by the mass media. Stereotypes of hillbillies and rednecks repeatedly appear in representations of the region, but few, if any, of its many heroes, visionaries, or innovators are ever referenced. Make no mistake, they are legion: from Anne Royall, America's first female muckraker, to Sequoyah, a Cherokee mountaineer who invented the first syllabary in modern times, and international divas Nina Simone and Bessie Smith, as well as writers Cormac McCarthy, Edward Abbey, and Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck, Appalachia has contributed mightily to American culture — and politics. Not only did eastern Tennessee boast the country's first antislavery newspaper, Appalachians also established the first District of Washington as a bold counterpoint to British rule. With humor, intelligence, and clarity, Jeff Biggers reminds us how Appalachians have defined and shaped the United States we know today.
Appalachia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachian Region
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachian Region
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Appalachian Wilderness
Author: Eliot Porter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Proceedings RMRS.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description