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Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains : an environmental history of the highest peaks in eastern America / Timothy Silver.

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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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