Name: William Stanek's Great Smoky Mountains. A Literary Field Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park
SKU: 68665988
Author: The Editors of Our American National Parks

portada William Stanek's Great Smoky Mountains. A Literary Field Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park

William Stanek's Great Smoky Mountains. A Literary Field Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Formato

ebook

Editorial

Our American National Parks Library

Autor

The Editors of Our American National Parks

Colección

Beautiful America 250th and Counting

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

185

ISBN13

9781666007695

William Stanek's Great Smoky Mountains. A Literary Field Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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Reseña del libro "William Stanek's Great Smoky Mountains. A Literary Field Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park"

The Smokies gather rather than announce themselves.

Ridge after ridge disappears into blue distance. Fog erases one view and creates another. Streams work through old forest. Roads cross gaps, descend into coves, and carry travelers through landscapes where human history remains inseparable from mountain geography.

William Stanek's Great Smoky Mountains is built for that accumulated experience. It helps readers understand forest, water, ridge travel, scenic roads, valley worlds, walking, wildlife, weather, settlement history, and the quieter spaces that often become more memorable than a famous overlook.

This is not a guide that mistakes abundance for permission to hurry. It gives readers ways to choose among competing parts of the park and to understand why fog, rain, elevation, traffic, trail surfaces, and distance can reshape even a modest day.

For families, couples, solo travelers, photographers, walkers, and return visitors, the Smokies become less a list of mountain attractions and more a living Appalachian world.