Another Country: Journeying toward the Cherokee Mountains
Camuto (Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge, LJ 11/1/90) once again reveals his love for the wilderness of the southern Appalachians, known to many as the Cherokee Mountains. He relates his journeys on foot and by canoe into this biologically diverse country, centered along the summit-line border of North Carolina and Tennessee, in the tradition of such natural history writers as Thoreau and Luna B. Leopold. Inspired by ethnologist James Mooney's 19th-century classic studies of the Cherokees and encouraged by the 1992 restoration of the red wolf (a central figure in Cherokee mythology) to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Camuto writes richly about the relationship of pre-European Cherokee culture to the physical and spiritual beauty of the land and its flora and fauna; seldom are natural and cultural history so beautifully interwoven. His work will be a significant addition to any Native American, regional studies, or natural history collection.?Pamela W. Bellows, Northwestern Connecticut Community Technical Coll. Lib., WinsteadCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.