Homeplace geography : essays for Appalachia / Donald Edward Davis.

Author/creator Davis, Donald Edward
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoMacon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2006.
Description221 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Environmentalism--Appalachian Region, Southern.
Natural history--Appalachian Region, Southern.
Mountain life--Appalachian Region, Southern.
Appalachian Region, Southern--History.
Appalachian Region, Southern--Geography.
Appalachian Region, Southern--Environmental conditions.
Appalachian Region, Southern--Social life and customs.

Contents Homeplace geography -- On building ecological fences -- The greening of Appalachia -- The politics of wilderness in Appalachia -- Community organizing in Appalachia -- Gore in the balance -- Feist or fiction? : the squirrel dog of the southern mountains -- Roads to ruins -- Shelby Lee Adams's Appalachian portraits -- Grassroots movements and rural policy in Appalachia -- Before Albion's seed -- The forest for the trees -- Living on the land : Blue Ridge life and culture -- Razing Appalachia -- A new beginning -- Medicinal and cultural uses of plants in the southern Appalachians -- A whole world dying -- The land of ridge and valley -- The Great Smokies -- Mountains of culture : environmental history and Appalachia.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006001478
ISBN0881460141 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780881460148