Title: Story line : exploring the literature of the Appalachian Trail /
Authors: Marshall, Ian, 1954-
Publisher: University Press of Virgina,
Year: 1998
Subjects: American literature Appalachian Region History and criticism.; Mountain life in literature.; Nature in literature.; Appalachian Region In literature.; Appalachian Trail Historiography.; Appalachian Trail In literature.
Contents: Introduction : walking the line -- Cherokee myths and the pleasures of geopiety -- Puc Puggy in the Nantahalas : the turning point of William Bartram's Travels -- Mary Noailles Murfree : ecofeminist of the Great Smoky Mountains -- Horace Kephart's "Man's game" and the community of Our southern highlanders -- Pilgrim at Tinker Cliffs -- From imperialism to nationalism : the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe cross the Blue Ridge -- Confluences : the view from Jefferson Rock -- From Wind Gap to Water Gap : on the trail of Edgar Huntly -- Where the open road meets howl -- Greylock and the whale -- Synecdoche and ecology : Frost in the Greens and Whites -- Democracy and ecology : Hawthorne's White Mountain stories -- Contact! Contact! A walk to Thoreau's Ktaadn.