Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Date Published: 1977-02
ISBN-13:9780870492037ISBN:0870492039
Description: Good. 1976 paperback no marks and is in good condition cover has some curl to it All of our products are cleaned with an disinfectant for your protection before shipping. read more
Description: ILLUSTRATOR: From Photographs PUBLISHER: Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, (c1977) DESCRIPTION: Book is a 8 3/4" x 5 3/4" hard cover with lime greenish cloth boards, 48 preliminary pages, 469 pages CONDITION: Book is good, U of Tennessee presentation Bookplate on the front end page light foxing and toning on the end pages DUST JACKET: Dust jacket is good some tiny tears at the edges and the reverse side has moderate foxing ABOUT THIS BOOK: A famous narrative of life and adventure in the ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Outing Publishing Company, New York
Date Published: 1913
Description: Good. Third printing. 395 pages, 32 plates, map, rebound in cloth, ex-library with usual library markings, circular library stamp on title-page on a few other places in text, date stamp pocket in rear, no book plate or location numbers on back strip. All plates are present however the frontispiece of 'Old Tom' has been inserted facing page 92 and the plate of the mountain still has been inserted facing page 168 due to error on part of the binder, otherwise very good. Third printing. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Date Published: 1977-02
ISBN-13:9780870492037ISBN:0870492039
Description: Very Good. Paperback. Approx. 3% or less with some writing/notations. Moderate cover wear. All orders are carefully packaged and processed within 24 hours. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Tennessee Press, Knoxville TN
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780870492037ISBN:0870492039
Description: As New. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pub by Univ of Tennessee Press, 1992. As-New cond. softcover in bright & colorful pict wraps. No spine crease. Illus in b&w. 474pp incl index. Book is square, straight, tight, bright & clean, overall As-New cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions. read more
Edition: Eighth Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, NY
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good with DJ. Hardcover Unmarked / In plastic / unclipeed / crisp / VG ++ / with a Phoenix newpaper artive from 1969 titled. Heart of Great Smokies predates life itself. Nice freebie/ Book great. read more
Edition: 8th Print.
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, NY
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. . A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers. 8 1/4" x 5 1/4", 469 pgs. Brown cloth binding, dust jacket has front flap clipped at top. read more
Edition: Second Revised Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, NY
Date Published: 1922
Description: Very Good / No DJ. Hardcover Red Cloth / VG + / revised edition of a classic of the people and ways of the Southern Mountains. Unmarked / tight. Includes a glued newspaper obit of a description of the car accident that killed Kephart and the novelist Fiswoode Tarleton in 1931. (Raleigh News and Observer April 3, 1931. )Revised with added chapters and new photographs. read more
"Great if you are interested in the region. Somewhat dated since Kephart was writing a little after the turn of the century. Very detailed and revealing look at the region far before tourism was even a factor. Kephart thrived on the wilderness and isolation and sold some stories to Field and Stream magazine before writing this book."
"What John Muir did for the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Horace Kephart did for the Great Smokies. He brought national attention to a little-known region and its people, and with that came preservation, not of the people but the region.
Kephart moved to the North Carolina side of the mountains and wrote articles for outdoor magazines and several books. "Our Southern Highlanders" is the most famous. A professional librarian in St. Louis, Kephart chose to drop out of life and live Thoreau-like in the wilderness.
He wrote, "When I went south into the mountains I was seeking a Back of Beyond. This for more reasons than one. With an inborn taste for the wild and romantic, I yearned for a strange land and a people that had a passion for early American history; and, in Far Appalachia, it seemed that I might realize the past in the present, seeing with my own eyes what life must have been to my pioneer ancestors of a century or two ago. Besides, I wanted to enjoy a free life in the open air, the thrill of exploring new ground, the joys of the chase, and the man's game of matching my woodcraft against the forces of nature, with no help from servants or hired guides."
For someone like me, whose ancestry is the Great Smokies (1800s, Tennessee side), this book brought insight into my early mountaineer family's lifestyle. (Even though I am barefoot as I write this, we avoid the term hillbilly.) Although Kephart seemed unduly focused on moonshining-yes, we hillbillies did that-the book is an excellent time capsule of that period before the coming of the national park, when the rugged Appalachians were the "Back of Beyond."
Published by the University of Tennessee Press, no study of Appalachia is complete without reading this colorful book."
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