The Great Smoky Mountains

Deedee Niederhouse-Mandrell, Lee Mandrell

Description

Gold Medal, Southeast Regional Non-Fiction, 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards

The Great Smoky Mountains have inspired, challenged, and entertained millions of visitors for hundreds of years. To preserve the splendor of the mountains and valleys for all to enjoy, Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated this beautiful area as a protected area and National Park in 1940. In this breathtaking book, the husband-and-wife photography team captures a new vision of the Great Smoky Mountains including both popular attractions and spectacular sites off the beaten path. Stunning photos represent all four seasons, including colorful fall foliage, spring's wildflower riches, intense summer sunsets, and serene winter snowfalls. Majestic views of mountains from Clingman's Dome to Morton Overlook along Newfound Gap Road will entice new visitors, while regulars will cherish the book as a memory album of their own, enjoying images of Cades Cove, Roaring Fork Motor Trail and the wildlife of the area. This book of new and remarkable photographs is a necessity for everyone who appreciates natural landscapes, wildlife, and beauty in an area rich with history and culture.

Foreword by Steve Kemp
Acknowledgements
Reflections on the Smokies
Gallery
Index

Sujets

• Loisirs
• Collections photographiques
• Photographie Créative
• Landscapes
• Themes
• Subjects
• Carolina del Norte
• Smoky Mountains
• Photography
• North Carolina
• Regional
• Tennessee
• Caroline du Nord

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 05 décembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780253023889
• Langue: English

Extrait

THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS

Puffy Clouds Dot the Sky. Cades Cove .
Lee Mandrell and DeeDee Niederhouse-Mandrell
Foreword by Steve Kemp
THE
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
A VISUAL JOURNEY

A View from the Blue Ridge Parkway. Cherokee, North Carolina .
This book is a publication of
Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA
iupress.indiana.edu
2017 by Lee Mandrell and Diana Niederhouse-Mandrell All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition.
Manufactured in China .
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Mandrell, Lee, photographer. | Niederhouse-Mandrell, DeeDee photographer.
Title: The Great Smoky Mountains : a visual journey / Lee Mandrell and DeeDee Niederhouse-Mandrell ; foreword by Steve Kemp.
Description: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2017. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016011853 (print) | LCCN 2016013805 (ebook) | ISBN 9780253023773 (cloth) | ISBN 9780253023889 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH : Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)-Pictorial works. | Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)-Description and travel.
Classification: LCC F 443. G 7 M 19 2017 (print) | LCC F 443. G 7 (ebook) | DDC 976.8/89-dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016011853
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Fall Scenery. Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail .
CONTENTS
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Reflections on the Smokies
Gallery
Index
Dusk. Clingmans Dome .
FOREWORD
Compared to the American West, or even the Northeast, the southeastern United States is generally considered flat. If asked to describe the geography of the region, many would conjure images of tangled swampland or white-sand Atlantic beaches.
Yet there is a very notable exception to the largely horizontal nature of this place: the southern Appalachian Mountains. Being near the southern terminus of the lengthy mountain range, the southern Appalachians are sometimes overlooked and often underestimated. It was not until the mid-nineteenth century that geographers came to accept the claim of Elisha Mitchell that the highest summit in the eastern United States was in North Carolina, not New Hampshire. Because peaks like Mount Washington have craggy faces and stony summits that protrude above the timberline, even scientists of the day assumed it was the tallest. Not so. The highest mountains east of the Mississippi River reside in North Carolina and East Tennessee, but because their summits are cloaked in evergreen forest and tend to be more rounded than craggy, their true heights deceived even the experts of the time.
The humbly handsome summits of the Great Smoky Mountains, with their famous misty blue silhouettes, are so shaped because of age. The time between being crumpled skyward by massive colliding continents and today is measured not in millions of years but in hundreds of millions of years. The eons of rain and ice have weathered the jagged upthrusts of sandstone and slate and allowed a riot of vegetation to transform the once-barren slopes into a temperate jungle. More than the bedrock beneath, this verdant cloak of vines, shrubs, trees, mosses, beetles, butterflies, warblers, and other organisms is what makes the Smokies so beautiful to behold and worthy of the exalted status of national park.
As Robert Sterling Yard, author, editor, and founding member of the Wilderness Society, put it, The Smokies are natural wonders, but they are more than that. One can see a stupendous phenomenon of nature-that awes one with its majesty; but when he has seen it once-well, he has seen it. The Smoky Mountains have enduring charm. Having seen them once, they lure you back again and again.