High Vistas:

High Vistas:

An Anthology of Nature Writing from Western North Carolina & the Great Smoky Mountains, Vol. I, 1674-1900

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Publication Date: 15th July 2008

High Vistas" is the first anthology devoted to nature writings on Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains. Each selection features a biographical essay introducing each author from celebrated naturalists John Muir and William Bartram to lesser-known writers whose words deserve to be heard and reveals how he or she went about exploring and depicting the region. Searching for rare wildflowers and elusive birds, scaling vertical cliffs, experimenting with medicinal plants, exploring a vast cavern, enduring horrific thunderstorms and encountering timber wolves, panthers, black bears a... Read More
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High Vistas" is the first anthology devoted to nature writings on Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains. Each selection features a biographical essay introducing each author from celebrated naturalists John Muir and William Bartram to lesser-known writers whose words deserve to be heard and reveals how he or she went about exploring and depicting the region. Searching for rare wildflowers and elusive birds, scaling vertical cliffs, experimenting with medicinal plants, exploring a vast cavern, enduring horrific thunderstorms and encountering timber wolves, panthers, black bears a... Read More
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High Vistas" is the first anthology devoted to nature writings on Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains. Each selection features a biographical essay introducing each author from celebrated naturalists John Muir and William Bartram to lesser-known writers whose words deserve to be heard and reveals how he or she went about exploring and depicting the region. Searching for rare wildflowers and elusive birds, scaling vertical cliffs, experimenting with medicinal plants, exploring a vast cavern, enduring horrific thunderstorms and encountering timber wolves, panthers, black bears and giant rattlesnakes are just some of the adventures that unfold in these pages."
Details
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Natural History
  • Publication Date: 15th July 2008
  • State: North Carolina
  • Illustration Note: 100% Mono
  • ISBN: 9781596293557
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
    HISTORY / United States / General
Author Bio

George Ellison was an iconic writer of Western North Carolina and lived directly adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee Indian Reservation. He was the author of High Vistas: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains; Mountain Passages: National and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains; Permanent Camp: Poems, Narratives and Renderings from the Smokies; and Literary Excursions of the Southern Highlands: Essays on Natural History and coauthor of Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography.

High Vistas" is the first anthology devoted to nature writings on Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains. Each selection features a biographical essay introducing each author from celebrated naturalists John Muir and William Bartram to lesser-known writers whose words deserve to be heard and reveals how he or she went about exploring and depicting the region. Searching for rare wildflowers and elusive birds, scaling vertical cliffs, experimenting with medicinal plants, exploring a vast cavern, enduring horrific thunderstorms and encountering timber wolves, panthers, black bears and giant rattlesnakes are just some of the adventures that unfold in these pages."
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Natural History
  • Publication Date: 15th July 2008
  • State: North Carolina
  • Illustrations Note: 100% Mono
  • ISBN: 9781596293557
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
    HISTORY / United States / General

George Ellison was an iconic writer of Western North Carolina and lived directly adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee Indian Reservation. He was the author of High Vistas: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains; Mountain Passages: National and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains; Permanent Camp: Poems, Narratives and Renderings from the Smokies; and Literary Excursions of the Southern Highlands: Essays on Natural History and coauthor of Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography.