Appalachia

Reducere. Appalachia verite...This fine collection edited and introduced by Charles Dodd White and Larry Smith includes this short fiction: "On the Road with...

Reducere. Lyrical prose and warm watercolor illustrations bring a "certain part of the country called Appalachia" alive for young readers. Two award-winning ...

Reducere. Appalachia: The place and its people have long inspired a special fascination among travelers and commentators. The rugged, ecologically rich mount...

Reducere. West - by God - Virginia is a homestyle patchwork of tales and recollections that vividly celebrate and embrace the people and culture of West Virg...

Reducere. Born in 1928, Mary Bremier has a remarkably keen eye, both for the beauty of her natural world and for the telling details of human frailty. The Sh...

Reducere. Lyrical prose and warm watercolor illustrations bring a "certain part of the country called Appalachia" alive for young readers. Two award-winning ...

Reducere. About the AuthorMatthew Ferrence teaches creative writing at Allegheny College, where he lives and writes at the confluence of the Rust Belt and Ap...

Reducere. In this beautiful book of photographs and short essays, some of Appalachia's best-known writers profile each other and the place they call home. Ed...

Reducere. Backroads 3: Faces of Appalachia is the third in a five-book series by Lynn Coffey about the native people of Virginia's highlands and their custom...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Backwoods Witchcraft, Jake Richards offers up a folksy stew of family stories, lore, omens, rituals, and conjure crafts that he learn...

Reducere. Although southern Appalachia is popularly seen as a purely white enclave, blacks have lived in the region from early times. Some hollows and coal c...

Reducere. About the AuthorJeff Mann is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. He has published three poetry chapbooks, five full-length books of...

Wild daisies adorn the landscape in beautiful shapes, sizes, and colors. Much like wild daisies gracing a hillside, their characteristics reflect o...

A critical legal scholar uses feminist and environmental theory to sketch alternate futures for Appalachia. Environmental law has failed spectacula...

Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep histori...

Reducere. Nancy Roberts's Southern Ghost Lore Revival--Exhumed and Improved for Fearless Readers Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady...

Reducere. Short-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book AwardIn Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, a...

Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the N...

DescriptionA fascinating exploration of the rich oral traditions of Southern Appalachia, and the latest volume in the classic, multi-million-copy-s...

Reducere. Throughout the Upland South, the banjo has become an emblem of white mountain folk, who are generally credited with creating the short-thumb-string...

Reducere. Central Appalachia and South Wales were built to extract coal, and faced with coal's decline, both regions have experienced economic depression, la...

Natural Magic and Folkways from Those Who Call the Blue Ridge Mountains Home The southern Appalachians are rich in folk magic and witchery. This bo...

Reducere. Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels wit...

Reducere. While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for ...

Reducere. Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved t...

Reducere. Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid cris...

Publisher: Chicago Review PressAuthor(s): Matthew AlgeoNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 144 x 219 x 21Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, med...

DescriptionDelivering welfare babies, warding off voodoo spells, and living in a town that still seems to be fighting the Civil War-small wonder yo...

Reducere. Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the A...

Reducere. *** A NEW YORK TIMES "100 Notable Books of 2020" ***A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rura...

Reducere. From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to res...

Reducere. In one of the first collections of scholarship at the intersection of LGBTQ studies and Appalachian studies, voices from the region's valleys, holl...

Reducere. Ghost Country, Volume One, takes each reader by the hand and leads them into a dark room, a lonesome room, a room with something panting and pacing...

Reducere. Walking toward the Sunset is a historical examination of the Melungeons, a mixed race group predominantly in southern Appalachia. Author Wayne Wink...

Reducere. Medicinal Plants of Appalachia features 125 plants of the Appalachian region of the eastern United States that have been traditionally used for her...

Reducere. The Hatfield-McCoy feud, the entertaining subject of comic strips, popular songs, movies, and television, has long been a part of American folklore...

Reducere. Thirteen plus one short tales by nine different Appalachian authors, an uprooting of tradition with another just for fun. A strong mix of history, ...

Publisher: West Virginia University PressAuthor(s): Neema AvashiaIllustration(s): 3 b/w imagesNumber of pages: 171Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

Examines Appalachia's long relationship with the global trade in medicinal plants.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Luke Manget...

Reducere. For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment--covering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempt...

Reducere. Explore all the ins and outs of Appalachian Hoodoo with our new title, The Art of the Boogity. In it you will not only find more than 50 spells for...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Appalachian MagazineAppalachian Magazine's Mountain Voice 2017 serves as an exhaustive collection of published online artic...

Reducere. In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relat...

Reducere. Appalachian Magazine's Mountain Superstitions, Ghost Stories & Haint Tales: A Collection of Memories & Commentaries from the Mountains of Appalachi...

Reducere. In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today's finest established and emerging writers with...

The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia. It focuses on how small-town reporters and edi...