March 2006

Southern History

224 pages, 6 x 9

978-0-88146-014-8

$25.00t, Paper

Index, bibliography

MUP/P331

Donald Edward Davis

Twenty years of writing about Appalachia, the environment, and home

These essays, arranged chronologically in the order they were first written, represent Donald Edward Davis's twenty-year career as a writer, environmental activist, and scholar of all things Appalachian. Join Davis in an exploration of a region consistently under attack by mining interests, developers, and the tourist industry, and consistently misunderstood by scholars. Approaching this unique region from both historical and environmental angles, Davis presents twenty essays to help illuminate the problems, peoples, and places of what may be the oldest mountain range in the world.

Homeplace Geography ranges from the heartfelt to the enlightening. In the book's title essay, for example, Davis mourns the quickly passing rural culture of Appalachia. In a later piece, the author discusses the feist, or squirrel dog, of the South's mountain country. Another essay unfolds the relationship between ecological philosophy and grassroots activism while another examines the idea of wilderness as a social construction with varied meanings. While some of these essays have been previously published, several of the selec-tions are being seen for the first time in this collection.

DONALD EDWARD DAVIS, PH.D., a native of Northwest Georgia, holds a master's in both Social Ecology and Psychology. He is the author of Ecophilosophy: A Field Guide to the Literature (R&E Miles, 1989) and has published numerous articles in journals such as Envronmental Ethics, The Ecologist, The Trumpeter, and the Utne Reader. He has lectured widely in the United States and abroad. His most recent books are the award-winning Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians (UGA Press, 2000) and The Land of Ridge and Valley: A Photographic History of the Northwest Georgia Mountains (Arcadia Press, 2001). He is a Fulbright Scholar.

Titles of Related Interest

Walking Toward the Sunset:
The Melungeons of Appalachia

Above the Fall Line:
The Trail from White Pine Cabin

Handling Serpents: Pastor Jimmy Morrow’s
Narrative History of His Appalachian Jesus’Name Tradition

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