Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains
Subtitle: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780807827550
Subjects: Historical geology; Places & peoples: general interest; United States - South - South Atlantic (General); Mountain ecology; History; Science; Nature; North Carolina; Nature/Ecology; Mountains; Ecology; Mount Mitchell; Black Mountains; southern Appalachians; Mount Mitchell State Park; Mount Mitchell Game Refuge; environmental history; forest history; forestry; Pisgah culture; Cherokees; Hernando de Soto; Andre Michaux; Elisha Mitchell; Thomas Clingman; Big Tom Wilson; Locke Craig; John Simcox Holmes; balsam woolly adelgid; acid deposition; spruce-fir forests; natural history of North Carolina; Blue Ridge Parkway; automobile tourism; camping; backpacking; hiking; flyfishing; Travel / United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV); Environmental Science; Black Mountains; Human ecology; Mount Mitchell (Mountain)
First sentence: At 2:00 A.M. I hear the wind.