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Appalachian Mountains

Camuto, Christopher. Another Country: Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains. Holt, 1997. Cherokee cultural and spiritual ties to the southern Appalachians.

Deeds, Jean. There are Mountains to Climb. Silverwood, 1996. Descriptions of hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Dunn, Durwood. Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937. University of Tennessee Press, 1988. History of the folk community in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Emblidge, David, ed. The Appalachian Trail Reader. Oxford University Press, 1996. Anthology of descriptive essays, some by well-known historical figures.

Pudup, Mary Beth; Dwight B. Billings; and Altina L. Waller, eds. Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century. University of North Carolina Press, 1995. This series of essays examines important events in the region's history.

Swanson, Robert E., and Frances R. Swanson. A Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Southern Appalachians. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Designed for use by the novice.

Thomas, Roy Edwin, ed. Come Go with Me: Old-Timer Stories from the Southern Mountains. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. Collection of stories for children.

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Cleare, John. Distant Mountains: Encounters with the World's Greatest Mountains. Discovery, 1998. Photographs and essays on world-famous mountain peaks.

Cooper, Adrian. Sacred Mountains: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Meanings. Rudolf Steiner Press, 1998. Description of spiritual associations with mountains and journeys to these mountains.

Lamb, Simon. Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes. In describing his research on the Andes Mountains, the author provides a good account of what geologists do.

Lamm, Richard D., and Eric Wunrow. Mountains of Colorado. Graphic Arts Center, 1999. Colorado's former governor celebrates the mountains of his state, with photographs by Wunrow.

Macdougall, J. D. A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire and Ice. Wiley, 1996, 1998. For the lay reader, a succinct account of our Earth's development.

Salkeld, Audrey, ed. World Mountaineering: The World's Great Mountains by the World's Great Mountaineers. Bulfinch, 1998. Prominent mountaineers describe their most revered peaks and ranges.

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