The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park

by Daniel S. Pierce

Book Overview

Seeking a taste of unspoiled wilderness, more than eight million people visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year. Yet few probably realize what makes the park unusual: it was the result of efforts to reclaim wilderness rather than to protect undeveloped land.

The Smokies have, in fact, been a human habitat for 8,000 years, and that contact has molded the landscape as surely as natural forces have. In this book, Daniel S. Pierce...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621901645
• ISBN13: 9781621901648
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"