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Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains : an environmental history of the highest peaks in eastern America / Timothy Silver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silver, Timothy, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mountain ecology--North Carolina--Mitchell, Mount (Mountain)--History.
- Mountain ecology.
- Human ecology--North Carolina--Mitchell, Mount (Mountain)--History.
- Human ecology.
- Mountain ecology--North Carolina--Black Mountains--History.
- Human ecology--North Carolina--Black Mountains--History.
- Mitchell, Mount (N.C. : Mountain)--Environmental conditions.
- Mitchell, Mount (N.C. : Mountain).
- Black Mountains (N.C.)--Environmental conditions.
- Black Mountains (N.C.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Origins
- Footprints
- Mitchell's mountain
- Modernity
- Government
- Murphy's law.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890868138
- 9780807863145
- 0807863149
- OCLC:
- 476237493
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