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Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains :an environmental history of the highest peaks in eastern America
- 作者: Silver, Timothy,
- 出版: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©2003.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xxii, 322 pages) :illustrations, maps.
- 標題: Mountain ecology. , Human ecology. , Mitchell, Mount (N.C. : Mountain) Environmental conditions. , Environmental conditions. , Ecology. , Human ecology North Carolina -- Black Mountains -- History. , Black Mountains (N.C.) Environmental conditions. , Ökologie , North Carolina Mount Mitchell (Mountain) , Mountain ecology North Carolina -- Mount Mitchell (Mountain) -- History. , SOCIAL SCIENCE , History. , Mountain ecology North Carolina -- Black Mountains -- History. , Electronic book. , Black Mountains (N.C.) , Gebirge , Human Geography. , Mountain ecology , SOCIAL SCIENCE Human Geography. , Human ecology North Carolina -- Mount Mitchell (Mountain) -- History. , Electronic books. , Mitchell, Mount (N.C. : Mountain) , North Carolina , Human ecology , North Carolina Black Mountains.
- ISBN: 0807863149 , 9780807863145
- ISBN: 9780807827550 , 080782755X , 9780807854235 , 0807854239
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Origins -- Footprints -- Mitchell's mountain -- Modernity -- Government -- Murphy's law.
- 摘要: This volume looks at the natural and human history of North Carolina's Mount Mitchell, part of the Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the United States. It chronicles the geological forces that created this landscape, traces its environmental change and human intervention.
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- 系統號: 005305709
- 資料類型: 電子書
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Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolina's Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States. From Native Americans and early explorers to land speculators and conservationists, people have long been drawn to this rugged region. Timothy Silver explores the long and complicated history of the Black Mountains, drawing on both the historical record and his experience as a backpacker and fly fisherman. He chronicles the geological and environmental forces that created this intriguing landscape, then traces its history of environmental change and human intervention from the days of Indian-European contact to today. Among the many tales Silver recounts is that of Elisha Mitchell, the renowned geologist and University of North Carolina professor for whom Mount Mitchell is named, who fell to his death there in 1857. But nature's stories--of forest fires, chestnut blight, competition among plants and animals, insect invasions, and, most recently, airborne toxins and acid rain--are also part of Silver's narrative, making it the first history of the Appalachians in which the natural world gets equal time with human history. It is only by understanding the dynamic between these two forces, Silver says, that we can begin to protect the Black Mountains for future generations.
來源: Google Book
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