Full name: The Appalachians: America's First and Last Frontier

Author: Mari-Lynn Evans Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781935978961 1935978969

A beautifully produced companion volume to the public television documentary The Appalachians fills the void in information about the region, offering a rich portrait of its history and its legacy in music, literature, and film. The text includes essays by some of Appalachia’s most respected scholars and journalists; excerpts from never-before-published diaries and journals; firsthand recollections from native Appalachians including Loretta Lynn, Ricky Skaggs, and Ralph Stanley; indigenous song lyrics and poetry; and oral histories from common folk whose roots run strong and deep. The book also includes more than one hundred illustrations, both archival and newly created. Here is a wondrous book celebrating a unique and valuable heritage. Similar books: The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer Pacific by Simon Winchester How the States Got Their Shapes Too by Mark Stein Love Stories by Jonathan Ned Katz Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare by John Toohey Napoleon's Privates by Tony Perrottet A Treasury of Deception by Michael Farquhar 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley What the Butler Saw by E. S. Turner A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer Oh, Yikes! by Joy Masoff Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann Cotton by Stephen Yafa