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Proving Ground : expertise and Appalachian landscapes /

The Appalachian Mountains attracted an endless stream of visitors in the twentieth century, each bearing visions of what they would encounter. Well before large numbers of tourists took to the mountains in the latter half of the century, however, networks of missionaries, sociologists, folklorists,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Slavishak, Edward Steven (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
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505 0 |a Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; 1 Expert Vision: J. Horace McFarland in the Woods; 2 Terrestrial and Human: Benton MacKaye's Mountain Work; 3 The Stern Grip of Circumstance: Hiking the Smoky Mountains, 1920-1940; 4 A Priceless Asset: Marion Pearsall in Isolation; 5 William Gedney and the Look of Coal Country; CONCLUSION; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. 
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