A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia

A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
Author: Rose McLarney
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0820356247

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Getting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge to the Cumberland Plateau, is one of the most biodiverse on earth. A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia—a hybrid literary and natural history anthology—showcases sixty of the many species indigenous to the region. Ecologically, culturally, and artistically, Southern Appalachia is rich in paradox and stereotype-defying complexity. Its species range from the iconic and inveterate—such as the speckled trout, pileated woodpecker, copperhead, and black bear—to the elusive and endangered—such as the American chestnut, Carolina gorge moss, chucky madtom, and lampshade spider. The anthology brings together art and science to help the reader experience this immense ecological wealth. Stunning images by seven Southern Appalachian artists and conversationally written natural history information complement contemporary poems from writers such as Ellen Bryant Voigt, Wendell Berry, Janisse Ray, Sean Hill, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Deborah A. Miranda, Ron Rash, and Mary Oliver. Their insights illuminate the wonders of the mountain South, fostering intimate connections. The guide is an invitation to get to know Appalachia in the broadest, most poetic sense.

A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia

A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia
Author: Todd Davis
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2024-09-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0820367524

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Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science. A companion volume to A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, this guide introduces the reader to seventy indigenous species found in Northern Appalachia, a region comprising parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. As a hybrid literary and natural history anthology, the book consists of descriptions and notes on habitat, range, and ecology provided by six scientists with expertise in the region’s flora and fauna. In addition, eleven artists and seventy poets have provided original artwork and poetry that illuminate the lives of the greater-than-human world. Defying easy stereotypes, the guide presents trees, shrubs, wildflowers and mammals, birds and fish, reptiles and amphibians, and invertebrates and fungi. Love and wonder for these ancient mountains and their ever-evolving residents flood the pages of this book, inviting the reader into a deeper way of knowing a place and the lives dependent on it.

A Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Southern Appalachians

A Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Southern Appalachians
Author: Robert E. Swanson
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1994-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780801845567

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Although the title suggests this is a guide to plants in a limited geographic range, the plants here are found in many areas of eastern North America, and the book can therefore be used as a guide for this larger area. But for naturalists visiting the beautiful area of the Southern Appalachians, it is a detailed and useful guide to the amazing variety of trees, shrubs, and woody vines growing there. "For naturalists visiting the beautiful area of the Southern Appalachians, it is a detailed and useful guide to the amazing variety of trees, shrubs, and woody vines growing there."-American Reference Books Annual

Mountains of the Heart

Mountains of the Heart
Author: Scott Weidensaul
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1938486897

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Part natural history, part poetry, Mountains of the Heart is full of hidden gems and less traveled parts of the Appalachian Mountains Stretching almost unbroken from Alabama to Belle Isle, Newfoundland, the Appalachians are one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world. In Mountains of the Heart, renowned author and avid naturalist Scott Weidensaul shows how geology, ecology, climate, evolution, and 500 million years of history have shaped one of the continent's greatest landscapes into an ecosystem of unmatched beauty. This edition celebrates the book's 20th anniversary of publication and includes a new foreword from the author.

Wildlife, Wildflowers, and Wild Activities

Wildlife, Wildflowers, and Wild Activities
Author: Jennifer A. Bauer
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781570723179

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The outdoors come to life in this collection of stories, games, crafts, investigations, and hands-on activities meant to accompany excursions into the fields, forests, and wetlands of southern Appalachia. The region’s rich natural diversity is highlighted, from its low-elevation coves to its highland ridges and balds. Because the southern Appalachian Mountains provide diverse habitats for plants and animals, every visit presents a new adventure. With an emphasis on the importance of a good conservation ethic along with suggestions on how to get involved in community conservation efforts, explorers of all ages can learn about topics such as plants, animals, microscopic life, life after dark, and environmental awareness.

Flowers of South-west Europe

Flowers of South-west Europe
Author: Oleg Polunin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1988
Genre: Angiosperms
ISBN: 9780192881786

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The Iberian peninsula is one of the richest botanical regions of Europe. The Flowers of South-West Europe is an unique field guide, describing over 2,400 different flowering plants which can be found in the region. Hundreds of line drawings, colour photographs, and detailed keys are included for easy identification. The book also provides, at first hand, a unique account of the best plant-hunting areas of the region. The provision of maps, photographs of the landscape, and double-page spreads of local plants will give readers a lively idea of where to go and what to look for. First published in paperback in 1988, this classic text by Oleg Polunin - one of the foremost British botanists of his generation - has never been superseded. No other comparable guide to the flora of south-west Europe exists. This reissued version will delight all botanists, gardeners, conservationists, and naturalists with an interest in the flowering plants of the Iberian peninsula, as well as holidaymakers in this popular region wishing to learn more about its flora.

Cherokee Archaeology

Cherokee Archaeology
Author: Bennie C. Keel
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1987-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780870495465

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The Appalachian Summit is the southernmost and highest part of the Appalachian mountain system. It is also the ancient home of the Cherokee Indians. The archaeology of the region has been poorly understood, however, primarily because the details of the archaeological remains of the prehistoric Cherokees and their antecedents have been virtually unknown. In Cherokee Archaeology Bennie Keel closes this longstanding gap in the study of the archaeology of North America by presenting and examining a wealth of recently excavated material evidence of the prehistoric peoples who once lived in the area.

A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs

A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs
Author: George A. Petrides
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1972
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780395353707

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Gives accounts of 646 species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines.

Forage

Forage
Author: Rose McLarney
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0525504974

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Winner of Weatherford Award for Best Poetry Book about Appalachia A poet acclaimed for "uncompromising, honest poems that sound like no one else" (The Rumpus) now offers considerations of the natural world and humans' place within it in ecopoetry of both ambitious reach and elegant refinement Rose McLarney has won attention as a poet of impressive insight, craft, and a "constantly questioning and enlarging vision" (Andrew Hudgins). In her third collection, Forage, she continues to weave together themes she loves: home, heritage, the South, animals, water, the environment. These intricately sequenced poems take up everything from animals' symbolic roles in art and as indicators of ecological change to how water can represent a large, troubled system or the exceptions of smaller, purer tributaries. At the confluence of these poems is a social commentary that goes beyond lamenting environmental degradation and disaster to record--and augment--the beauty of the world in which we live.

A Field Guide to Western Birds

A Field Guide to Western Birds
Author: National Audubon Society
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1990
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780395911747

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"The Birder’s Bible" for more than 60 years, Roger Tory Peterson’s classic Field Guide to Western Birds includes all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico. Featuring the unique Peterson Identification System, Western Birds contains 165 full-color paintings that show more than 1,000 birds from 700 species. Summer and winter ranges, breeding grounds, and other special range data are shown on easy-to-read range maps.