Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains (eBook)

An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America

Timothy Silver (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2003
352 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-6314-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolinas Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States. From Native Americans and early explorers to land speculators and conservationists, people have long been drawn to this rugged region. Timothy Silver explores the long and complicated history of the Black Mountains, drawing on both the historical record and his experience as a backpacker and fly fisherman. He chronicles the geological and environmental forces that created this intriguing landscape, then traces its history of environmental change and human intervention from the days of Indian-European contact to today.Among the many tales Silver recounts is that of Elisha Mitchell, the renowned geologist and University of North Carolina professor for whom Mount Mitchell is named, who fell to his death there in 1857. But natures stories of forest fires, chestnut blight, competition among plants and animals, insect invasions, and, most recently, airborne toxins and acid rain are also part of Silvers narrative, making it the first history of the Appalachians in which the natural world gets equal time with human history. It is only by understanding the dynamic between these two forces, Silver says, that we can begin to protect the Black Mountains for future generations.

Autor

Timothy Silver is professor of history at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. His previous publications include A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.12.2003
• Zusatzinfo: 46 illus., 5 maps, notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Bildbände
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Acid Deposition • Andre Michaux • automobile tourism • Backpacking • balsam woolly adelgid • Big Tom Wilson • black mountains • Blue Ridge Parkway • Camping • cherokees • Elisha Mitchell • Environmental history • Flyfishing • Forest history • forestry • Hernando de Soto • Hiking • John Simcox Holmes • Locke Craig • Mount Mitchell • Mount Mitchell Game Refuge • Mount Mitchell State Park • natural history of North Carolina • Pisgah culture • Southern Appalachians • spruce-fir forests • Thomas Clingman
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-6314-9 / 0807863149
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-6314-5 / 9780807863145