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245 04 $aThe height of our mountains :$bnature writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley /$cedited by Michael P. Branch & Daniel J. Philippon ; foreword by John Elder.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c1998.
300 $axxx, 421 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
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500 $a"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 401-408) and index.
520 $a"An anthology of nearly four centuries of nature writing from the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley of Virginia ... Also includes a critical introduction to the character and form of nature writing, the concepts of place and bioregionalism, and the literary natural history of the Blue Ridge regions, as well as detailed notes to the selections."--Back cover.
505 00 $tForeword /$rJohn Elder --$gI.$tDiscovery, Exploration, and Settlement (1607-1815).$t"The Description of Virginia," from A Map of Virginia /$rJohn Smith (1580-1631).$t[Blandina River], from The Discoverie of New Brittaine /$rEdward Bland (c. 1615-51).$t"The First Expedition," from The Discoveries of John Lederer /$rJohn Lederer (b. 1644?).$t[We Supposed There to Be a Great Bay], from A Journal from Virginia /$rRobert Fallam (n.d.).
505 80 $t[All I Have Yet Observed], from "Letter to Dr. Robert Morison" /$rJohn Banister (1650-92).$t"Of the Earths, and Soil," from The History and Present State of Virginia /$rRobert Beverley (c. 1673-1722).$t[The Spotswood Expedition], from The Journal of John Fontaine /$rJohn Fontaine (b. 1693).$t[A Prospect of the Mountains], from The History of the Dividing Line /$rWilliam Byrd II (1674-1744).
505 80 $t[The Largest Landscape That Ever My Eyes Beheld], from Journal of a Trip to Maryland and Virginia /$rJohn Bartram (1699-1777).$t"Of the Soil" and "Of the Water," from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands /$rMark Catesby (1683-1749).$tA Journal of My Journey over the Mountains /$rGeorge Washington (1732-99).$t[Over the Pignut and Blue Ridges] and [Some Natural Curiosities], from Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America /$rAndrew Burnaby (1734-1812).
505 80 $t[North River], from The Journal of Philip Vickers Fithian /$rPhilip Vickers Fithian (1747-76).$t[The Opossum], [The Tick], [The Firefly], [The Persimmon], [The Turkey Buzzard], [The Dogwood], and [The Tulip Tree], from Travels through the Interior Parts of America /$rThomas Anburey (n.d.).$t"Query IV: A Notice of Its Mountains?" and "Query V: Its Cascades and Caverns?" from Notes on the State of Virginia /$rThomas Jefferson (1743-1826).
505 80 $t[Old Master], from Memoirs of a Monticello Slave /$rIsaac Jefferson (1775-c. 1850).$t[Enniscorthy], [Monticello], [Up the Blue Mountains], [Staunton], and [Crossing Middle River], from Voyage into the United States of America /$rLuigi Castiglioni (1757-1832).$t[Beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains], from Journal of My Voyage /$rAndre Michaux (1746-1802).
505 80 $t[The Peaks of Otter], [East and West of the Blue Ridge], and [The Shenandoah Valley], from Travels through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada /$rIsaac Weld, Jr. (1774-1856).$t[The Countryside Monotonous and Indifferently Farmed], from Diary of My Travels in America /$rLouis Philippe, King of France (1773-1850) --$gII.$tAn Emerging Sense of Place (1816-1928).
505 80 $t[Sketch of a Mountain Landscape], from Letters from the South /$rJames Kirke Paulding (1778-1860).$t[Errors in Our Husbandry], from "Address to the Agricultural Society of Albemarle, Virginia" /$rJames Madison (1751-1836).$t[Say's Phoebe], from Ornithological Biography /$rJohn James Audubon (1785-1851).$t"Passage across the Alleganies," "Scarcity of Birds in North America," "Sweet Springs," and "White Sulphur Springs," from Narrative of a Tour in North America /$rHenry Tudor (n.d.).
505 80 $t[There Is a Singular Joyousness in a Wilderness], from A Winter in the West /$rCharles Fenno Hoffman (1806-84).$t"Climbing the Natural Bridge" /$rWilliam Alexander Caruthers (1802-46).$t"Weyer's Cave," from The Poetry of Travelling in the United States /$rCaroline Howard Gilman (1794-1888).$t[The Student's Account of His Visit to the House Mountain], from Judith Bensaddi /$rHenry Ruffner (1790-1861).
505 80 $t[The Sublime and the Beautiful], from Life of the Rev. William Graham /$rArchibald Alexander (1772-1851).$t[Harper's Ferry Disappointed Me], from Southward Ho! /$rWilliam Gilmore Simms (1806-70).$t[Ascent of South Peak], from Virginia Illustrated /$rDavid Hunter Strother (Porte Crayon) (1816-88).$t[The Landscape Spread before Me] and [Yankee Pollution], from The Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck /$rLucy Rebecca Buck (1842-1918).
505 80 $t[What a Harvest Death Has Reaped] and [A World of Sweet Repose], from The Diary of Cornelia Peake McDonald /$rCornelia Peake McDonald (1822-1909).$t"Virginia," from Memoranda during the War /$rWalt Whitman (1819-92).$t[Our March up the Shenandoah Valley], from Three Years in the Sixth Corps /$rGeorge T. Stevens (1832-1921).$t[The Burning], from A Boy of Old Shenandoah /$rRobert Hugh Martin (1858-1939).
505 80 $t[An Episode on Rumbling Creek], from Sketches from Old Virginia /$rA. G. Bradley (1850-1943).$t[The Precincts of a Holy Place], from A World of Green Hills /$rBradford Torrey (1843-1912).$t[No Thought for the Future], from Report on the Forests and Forest Conditions of the Southern Appalachian Region /$rJames Wilson (1835-1920).$t"The Hawk's Nest," from Memory Days /$rAlexander S. Paxton (1840-1913).
505 80 $t"Small Country Neighbors," from Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter /$rTheodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).$t"With Roosevelt at Pine Knot," from Under the Maples /$rJohn Burroughs (1837-1921).$t[Mountains Rose around Them], from The Great Valley /$rMary Johnston (1870-1936) --$gIII.$tPreservation and Loss (1929-1997).$t"Address at Madison Courthouse" /$rHerbert Hoover (1874-1964).$t"An Essay on Virginia," from A Novelette and Other Prose, 1921-1931 /$rWilliam Carlos Williams (1883-1964).
505 80 $t[The Oversoul of Appalachian Virginia], from Vein of Iron /$rEllen Glasgow (1873-1945).$t"Address at the Dedication of Shenandoah National Park" /$rFranklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945).$t[Mill House on Back Creek], from Sapphira and the Slave Girl /$rWilla Cather (1873-1947).$t"The Northern Hardwood Groves" and "The Appalachian Forest Formation," from The Great Smokies and the Blue Ridge /$rDonald Culross Peattie (1898-1964).
505 80 $t"The Passing Show," from Wild Wings /$rJoseph James Murray (1890-1973).$t"Hunting Bee-Trees," from Tales, of Quails'n Such /$rHavilah Babcock (1898-1964).$t"May at Monticello," from North with the Spring /$rEdwin Way Teale (1899-1980).$t"Down the Blue Ridge," from Wild America /$rRoger Tory Peterson (1908-96) and James Fisher (1912-70).$t[Death of the Chestnuts], from The Blue Ridge /$rEugene J. Wilhelm (b. 1933).$t[On Spencer's Mountain], from The Homecoming /$rEarl Hamner (b. 1923).
505 80 $t"A Spring Visit," from The Woods /$rCharles B. Seib (b. 1919).$t"Heaven and Earth in Jest," from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek /$rAnnie Dillard (b. 1945).$t"The Forest Floor," from The Southern Appalachians /$rJerome Doolittle (b. 1933).$t"Elements of the North," from The Nature of Shenandoah /$rNapier Shelton (b. 1931).$t"The Passage of the Potomac," from The Blue Ridge /$rWilliam A. Bake (b. 1938).
505 80 $t[On the Appalachian Trail], from Appalachian Odyssey /$rSteve Sherman (b. 1938) and Julia Older (b. 1941).$t"A Walk in the Forest Primeval" /$rEileen Lambert (b. 1922).$t"Blue Ridge Complex," from A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge /$rChristopher Camuto (b. 1951).$t"A Mushroom House and Frogs Singing," from Once There Was a Farm /$rVirginia Bell Dabney (1919-1997).$t[August in Orchard Gap], from Simple Living /$rFrank Levering (b. 1952) and Wanda Urbanska (b. 1956).
505 80 $t"The Fine Art of Tree Farming" /$rLynn Dickerson (b. 1931).$t"Marginal Stability," from Songs to Birds /$rJake Page (b. 1936).$t"Upriver," from "Ridge, Valley, and River" /$rBruce Stutz (b. 1950).$t[President of the Pond], from Preservation /$rPeter Svenson (b. 1944).$t"Boulder Dance" /$rJohn Daniel (b. 1948).
650 0 $aNatural history$zBlue Ridge Mountains.
650 0 $aNatural history$zShenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)
651 0 $aBlue Ridge Mountains$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aShenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)$xDescription and travel.
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650 7 $aTravel.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01155558
651 7 $aUnited States$zBlue Ridge Mountains.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01243051
651 7 $aUnited States$zShenandoah River Valley.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01310381
700 1 $aBranch, Michael P.
700 1 $aPhilippon, Daniel J.
710 2 $aCenter for American Places.
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