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by Jimmy Jacobs List: $17.00 Our Price: $13.60 You Save: $3.40 (20%) Availability: This title usually ships within 24 hours. Paperback, 335 pages

A reader from Indiana , 05/08/98, rating=8:
Good Guide for Anyone New to Area
Just spent three days fishing in the GSMNP in eastern Tennessee, and found Mr. Jacobs book to be right on target. A lot of the information can be found from local flyshops, but his book really helped plan our trip in advance. Coupling this book with local advice is a formula for success.

A reader from Linden, Tennessee , 04/04/98, rating=9:
Excellent book for trout fishing in the South...
"Trout Streams of Southern Appalachia" is an outstanding book for people who want to fish for trout in the Appalachian Mountain regions of Georgia, Kentucky, North and South Carolina and Tennessee. It gives locations, access points, fly patterns and hatches for the best trout streams in the South. It is well written and the reader can see that the author put in many hours of research in writing this book. I just wish there were more books written on this subject.

Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining by Eliot Wigginton (Editor), All List: $15.95 Our Price: $12.76 You Save: $3.19 (20%) Availability: This title usually ships within 24 hours. Paperback

From the Publisher :
In the late 1960's, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries and includes log cabin building, hog dressing, snake lore, mountain crafts and food, and "other affairs of plain living."

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...Foxfire 2

Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin'S, Wagon Making and More; Eliot Wigginton (Editor)

Card catalog description :
Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.

Foxfire 3 : Animal Care, Banjos and Dulcimers, Hide Tanning, Summer and Fall Wild Plant Foods, Butter Churns, Ginseng, and Still More Affairs of Plai; Eliot Wiggington (Editor), Eliot Wigginton

Traveling the Southern Highlands : A Complete Tour Guide to the Mountains of Northeast Georgia and Western North Carolina
by Cathy Summerlin, Vernon Summerlin
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Reviews and Commentary for Traveling the Southern Highlands : A Complete Tour Guide to the Mountains of Northeast Georgia, East Tennessee, Western North Carolina

Book Description :
The latest travel book by Cathy and Vernon Summerlin, Traveling the Southern Highlands, is an informative and entertaining guide to the southeast's mountainous regions exploring areas from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Summerlins show all there is to see and do in this beautifully unspoiled area of the country including helpful information on the best restaurants, and the best places to stay the night in homestyle comfort. In order to get the most out of the vacation, the book guides travelers through loop tours of certain areas of the region enabling them to see more of the roads less traveled. Cathy and Vernon Summerlin have painstakingly researched each location and personally sampled the majority of the inns, restaurants, and attractions that they recommend. By traveling the area extensively, the Summerlins share adventures, history of the region, and stories of the personalities of the places that they have visited. You almost feel that you are already there while you read about the people they met or meals they enjoyed. So the next time you visit the southern highlands, take a little experience with you in Traveling the Southern Highlands.

Synopsis:
Educating readers about the region's heritage, vacation possibilities, and entertaining them with accounts of the authors' personal experiences, this guide covers the Great Smoky Mountains and the southern portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway. It also includes the beauty of northeast Georgia and cities and towns such as Asheville, Hendersonville and Cherokee, North Carolina; Jonesboro, Townsend and Gatlinburg, Tennessee; and Abingdon and Galax, Virginia.

The publisher, Rutledge Hill Press , 10/09/97:
The latest travel book by Cathy and Vernon Summerlin, TRAVELING THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS, is an informative and entertaining guide to the southeast's mountainous regions exploring areas from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Summerlins reveal all there is to see and do in this beautifully unspoiled area of the country including helpful information on the best restaurants, and the best places to stay the night in homestyle comfort. In order to get the most out of the vacation, the book guides travelers through loop tours of certain areas of the region enabling them to see more of the roads less traveled.

Cathy and Vernon Summerlin have painstakingly researched each location and personally sampled the majority of the inns, restaurants, and attraction that they recommend. By traveling the area extensively, the Summerlins share adventures, history of the region, and stories of the personalities of the places that they have visited. You almost feel that you are already there while you read about the people they met or meals they enjoyed. So the next time you visit the southern highlands, take a little experience with you in TRAVELING THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS.

Another Country : Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains
by Christopher Camuto
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Published by Henry Holt & Company, Inc.
Publication date: July 1997

From Kirkus Reviews , 06/01/97:
A respectfully cross-cultural, profoundly appreciative love letter to the southern Appalachians--the Cherokee Mountains--from Camuto (A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge, 1990). Camuto delves into the landscape to get a glimpse of the past and transcend a present in which ``the possibilities of genuine enchantment continually recede.'' For him, that means deep immersion in the Cherokee way of seeing their homeland (though he's smart enough to realize he'll never truly be able to look with Cherokee eyes). He writes not just of his response to the evergreen woods, but of how he understands the Cherokee to have related to them; not only his take on sacred places, but how they figured in the Cherokee cosmology. Camuto is deeply smitten by this ancient, crumpled terrain. He walks long and hard along aboriginal paths in search of wild encounters; tenders intimate, vivid, timeless descriptions of his days afield; leavens the proceedings with historical narratives, natural histories, ethnologies. He limns the good--the Cherokee language and customs, the reintroduction of the red wolf, the improvisational jazz to be found in a veery's song; and the bad--the savagery and sadism of the European conquest, cultural dismemberment, environmental degradation, pauperization of the land's spirit, the loss of native plants and animals, native ideas and images. Camuto's prose can be tortured (describing a pileated woodpecker's ``scalloped flight, a kind of iambic in the air'') and flagging (``De Soto moved on unmoved''). But for the most part it strides quietly and in awe. He beholds a remnant of old growth (``a diorama a bear would have imagined''), reflects on how the red wolf deepens the woods, relishes the pleasures of a campfire. Camuto is humble enough, nimble enough, to sojourn successfully in these mythopoeic climes, conjuring a place portrait of swarming, satisfying complexity. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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The author of the highly acclaimed A FLY FISHERMAN'S BLUE RIDGE returns to the territory of his first book to guide readers through the natural and cultural history of the southern Appalachians. This is an important book about a hunted and haunting American landscape.

Appalachian Whitewater : The Southern Mountains : The Premier Canoeing and Kayaking Streams of Georgia, North Carolina, others
by Bob Sehlinger, Don Otey, Bob Benner, William Nealy, Bob Lantz, Benner Benner
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Foggy Mountain Breakdown : And Other Stories
by Sharyn McCrumb
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Recommended Book, 10/01/97:
"I come from a race of storytellers," writes Sharyn McCrumb in her introduction to the first complete collection of her wonderfully rich and mordant short stories. "My father's family--the Arrowoods and the McCourys--settled in the Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina when the wilderness was still Indian country." Like McCrumb's fine novels (She Walks These Hills and a dozen others), these 24 stories link the mysteries of the past with life in present-day Appalachia, using chains of words stronger than any steel.

Harriet Klausner , 08/23/97, rating=10:
Beautiful and charming
FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN is a short story collection of some of the best works by Sharyn McCrumb. Most of the collection has been published elsewhere, but never in one book. The stories vary as they include suspense, relationship dramas, and deep characterizations that portray the people and land of the Southern Appalachian chain.

All the stories are quite good, especially the who-done-its. The relationship tales are also quite excellent. Tales like the honeymoon couple returning to his mountain roots ("Telling the Bees") or the marriage between a wannabe and a death row inmate ("Not All Brides Are Beautiful") are entirely different stories that share two things in common (along with some of the other stories): They are both extremely interesting and fun to read. This is a very diverse short story anthology from one of the best regional novelists today and is well worth reading.

... 50 Hiking Trails in North Carolina

50 Hikes in the Mountains of North Carolina (Fifty Hikes Series)
by Elizabeth W. Williams, Robert L., III Williams
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A Problem Solving Manual for Use in the Wilds

The 2 oz Backpacker
by Robert S Wood
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The Appalachian Trail Backpacker
by Frank Logue, Victoria Logue
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Paperback: 200 pages

A reader from Washington, DC 10/17/98 (5 Stars)
A great book -- it helped me thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. It taught me what I needed to know to successfully thru-hike the A.T. The advice is straightforward, and the anecdotes make it enjoyable to read.

The book is well written, including gear reviews, trail tips, advice and references for collecting additional information. While not enough to plan a hike solely on the basis of what is written, it surely is useful for AT day hikes, thru-hikes, or any hike you care to attempt. Best for beginner-to-intermediate level backpackers, but everyone can learn something new from it.

The Backpacker's Handbook
by Chris Townsend
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This inspired guide from one of the world's best-traveled adventurers offers essential, up-to-the-minute information and advice on all aspects of backcountry trekking for hikers and backpackers of every stripe. From planning and techniques to gear, it's all covered in succinct, highly readable fashion in an expanded, visually arresting update of a proven bestseller. The Backpacker's Handbook is the only major guide to deliver an in-depth look at all backpacking styles, from ultralight to long-distance hiking. Chris Townsend's anecdotal style makes for a book that invites reading from cover to cover, yet is designed to let readers find specific topics quickly. This improved edition boasts an appealing text design, abundant illustrations and photographs of techniques and gear and many useful sidebars and summaries.

From an avid backpacker, Austin,Texas, April 25, 1998 (4 Stars)
This book is right on the money for anyone interested in backpacking. The authors knowledge on modern backpacking equipment is immense. I've browsed over dozens of "how to" backpacking books and, in my opinion, this book is the best on the market.

Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
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Charles Frazier's debut novel, Cold Mountain, is a story of a very long walk. In the waning months of the Civil War, a wounded Confederate veteran named Inman gets up from his hospital bed and begins the long journey back to his home in the remote hills of North Carolina. Along the way he meets rogues and outlaws, Good Samaritans and vigilantes, people who help and others who hinder, but through it all Inman's aim is true: his one goal is to return to Cold Mountain and to Ada, the woman he left behind. The object of his affection, meanwhile has problems of her own. Raised in the rarefied air of Charleston society, Ada was brought to the backwoods of Cold Mountain by her father, a preacher who came to the country for his health. Even after her father's death, Ada remains there, partly to wait for Inman, but partly because she senses her destiny lies not in the city but in the North Carolina Blue Ridge.

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Spooky Tales from the Georgia Mountains
Hook Moon Night
by Faye Gibbons
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A collection of eight hair-raising yarns told by mountain people in Georgia while sitting on their front porch many miles from the nearest electric lights and indoor plumbing.

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Wild Flowers of North Carolina
by William Justice, Ritchie Bell
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Highroad Guide to the Georgia Mountains
by Fred Brown, Nell Jones
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Atlanta Journal Constitution, May 10, 1998
Detailed trail maps and pen-and-ink drawings of area flora and fauna for the traveler who likes to get off the main drag.

Tennessean, March 15, 1998
This comprehensive guide brings together the natural history and features of the mountains in a format that is easy to use and packed with detailed information. If hiking isn't your idea of fun, the mountains also offer great fishing, canoeing, mountain biking and horseback riding. Literally hundreds of getaway ideas are included revealing secret places and hideaways known previously only to those who live in or have spent lifetimes exploring the mountain regions.

A comprehensive Guide to Public Streams and Rivers
by Jimmy Jacobs, Marian Lord
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This book is a must have for anyone interested in seeking the sly trout in North Georgia. He is very complete in his technique and equipment sections and his maps are very thorough and easy to read. I never go fishing without it.

40 Best Trout Flies
by Robert H Alley, Robert S Alley
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These 40 flies will catch trout anywhere. For each fly he offers situations and presentation methods that can shine new light on an already popular pattern, as well as reasons behind the fly's enduring success. They have emerged as the very best from among thousands of different fly patterns and types. Color plates of all 40 flies round out this helpful fly-fishing companion. Virtually all the flies listed are readily found wherever good flies are sold.

The Craft Heritage Trails of Western North Carolina
by Robin Daniel
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This is more than a simple guidebook to craft. It is the story of people. People whose lives are colored by their art and whose art colors the lives of anyone who comes to know their work. And where are these people? They're "down the road a piece" or "round the bend" or "within shoutin' distance". And they're in this book. Consider for example, the following: Under the roof of a 100-year-old chestnut barn somewhere outside Sylva, a young woman patiently coaxes a human form out of a block of marble in the method of a Renaissance master. This book is an invitation. It invites you to discover a world you may have no idea existed. But here in the mountains and hill country of Western North Carolina, where you can see only as far as the next bend, something of timeless grace unfolds.

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