| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.4

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Book Review

Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America. By Timothy Silver. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xxii + 322 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth $39.95, paper $19.95.
Let's begin with the verdict: this is a fine book and a good read.	1
In his preface, Silver suggests that nature should receive equal time with people in an environmental history of the southern Appalachians, and thereby avoid heavy focus on human events at the expense of overlooking (or not knowing) the rhythms of nature on montane landscapes. The landscapes here are twofold: the eastern deciduous forest and the boreal extension of spruce and fir that reaches deep into the southern Appalachians of North Carolina and beyond. Silver regularly visits the Black Mountains ("the Blacks") and, to prepare for this book, he kept a journal to preserve his impressions that appear in brief sections throughout the text.	. . .

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