In the eighteenth century, naturalist and artist William Bartram traveled in the Blue Ridge Mountains and spent time documenting both plant life and the customs of the Middle Town Cherokees. Since that time, men and women like Bartram have journeyed through Western North Carolina's wildest and most remote places and written about their experiences. The essays in this volume compare the present day to those historical journeys and explore the idea of wilderness and what change means for the future of the people and the species who live in the mountains. Join local writer and guide Brent Martin on a journey through this incredible landscape.

The Changing Blue Ridge Mountains: Essays on Journeys Past and Present (Natural History)

Biographies & Memoirs

Martin, Brent

Community & Culture

The History Press

Poetry. POEMS FROM SNOW HILL ROAD is a true bio-regional examination of place. In this case the place is the Smoky Mountains of the Blue Ridge in western North Carolina. While these poems reflect, perfectly, the place and its people, it could also be taken for almost anywhere in the U.S. where there is still a living regional culture and a rural landscape. Brent Martin has worked for most of his adult life for various Land Trusts and wilderness preservation organizations. He currently works for The Wilderness Society. These sensitive and well-crafted poems in a limited fine-editions printing reflect his committment and love of the natural world in all its many faces and extremities.

Poems from Snow Hill Road

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

New Native Press

A Hiker's Guide to the Bartram National Recreation Trail in Georgia and North Carolina

History

Americas

Milestone Press

George Masa's Wild Vision recounts the incredible, overlooked life of the photographer George Masa. Self-taught photographer George Masa (born Masahara Iizuka in Osaka, Japan), arrived in Asheville, North Carolina at the turn of the twentieth century amid a period of great transition in the southern Appalachians. Masa's photographs from the 1920s and early 1930s are stunning windows into an era where railroads hauled out the remaining old-growth timber with impunity, new roads were blasted into hillsides, and an activist community emerged to fight for a new national park. Masa began photographing the nearby mountains and helping to map the Appalachian Trail, capturing this transition like no other photographer of his time. His images, along with his knowledge of the landscape, became a critical piece of the argument for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, compelling John D. Rockefeller to donate $5 million for initial land purchases. Despite being hailed as the "Ansel Adams of the Smokies," Masa died, destitute and unknown, in 1933. In George Masa's Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina, poet and environmental organizer Brent Martin explores the locations Masa visited, using first-person narratives to contrast, lament, and exalt the condition of the landscape the photographer so loved and worked to interpret and protect. The book includes seventy-five of Masa's photographs, accompanied by Martin's reflections on Masa's life and work.

George Masa's Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina (Cold Mountain Fund Series)

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Hub City Press

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