Caves of Tennessee

Caves of Tennessee
Author: Thomas C. Barr (Jr.)
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 600
Release: 1961
Genre: Caves
ISBN: STANFORD:36105011122707

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Caves of Tennessee

Caves of Tennessee
Author: Thomas C. Barr (Jr.)
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 567
Release: 1972
Genre: Caves
ISBN: OCLC:1264670869

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Hidden Nature

Hidden Nature
Author: Michael Ray Taylor
Publsiher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2020-08-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780826501035

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Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021 More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. Thousands more riddle surrounding states. In Hidden Nature, Michael Ray Taylor tells the story of this vast underground wilderness. In addition to describing the sheer physical majesty of the region’s wild caverns and the concurrent joys and dangers of exploring them, he examines their rich natural history and scientific import, their relationship to clean water and a healthy surface environment, and their uncertain future. As a longtime caver and the author of three popular books related to caving—Cave Passages, Dark Life, and Caves—Taylor enjoys (for a journalist) unusual access to this secretive world. He is personally acquainted with many of the region’s most accomplished cave explorers and scientists, and they in turn are familiar with his popular writing on caves in books; in magazines such as Audubon, Outside, and Sports Illustrated; and on websites such as those of the Discovery Channel and the PBS science series Nova. Hidden Nature is structured as a comprehensive work of well-researched fact that reads like a personal narrative of the author’s long attraction to these caves and the people who dare enter their hidden chambers.

Looking Beyond the Highway

Looking Beyond the Highway
Author: Claudette Stager,Martha Carver
Publsiher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 1572334673

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Looking beyond the Highway is an examination of road history and roadside attractions specific to the South. Focused in part on numerous aspects of thematerial culture landscape of the Dixie Highway, the essays consider the politics of roadbuilding, roadside entertainment, the buildings and businesses one might encounter along the road, and regional adaptations to the needs and desires of northern tourists. Following the Dixie Highway from southern Illinois to Florida with sidetrips down other southern roads, the essays cover a wide variety of subjects, many of which will resonate with anyone who has ever lived in or vacationed in the South: Harrison Mayes's “Get Right With God” signs; the park-and-pray craze of outdoor drive-in church services; the rise and demise of brick highways; the fierce political battle over the route of the Dixie Highway; beach music and the evolution of motel architecture in Myrtle Beach; Florida's early tourist towers; and the commercial development of Tennessee caves as tourist attractions. Covering a landscape that includes Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Indiana, Virginia, Arkansas, Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama, and Illinois, the anthology shows that there was and still is a distinctive southern culture and how roads have influenced that culture. As lively as they are diverse, thearticles provide a solid background for understanding roadside ephemera that have disappeared or are quickly disappearing. Ranging from the serious to the light-hearted and including descriptions of American road and roadside icons to kitsch, the book will appeal to anyone with an interest in road history and roadside architecture.

Descriptions of Tennessee Caves

Descriptions of Tennessee Caves
Author: Larry E. Matthews
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1971
Genre: Caves
ISBN: 0979617812

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Caves of Tennessee

Caves of Tennessee
Author: Thomas Calhoun Barr
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1961
Genre: Caves
ISBN: 0979617804

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Public Health Reports

Public Health Reports
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1192
Release: 1965
Genre: Public health
ISBN: MSU:31293008114294

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Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland

Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland
Author: Michael Birdwell
Publsiher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2004-12-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813171890

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Tennessee History Book Award Finalist The Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, has a far richer history and culture than has been documented. The contributors to Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland discuss an extensive array of subjects, including popular music, movies, architecture, folklore, religion, and literature. Seventeen original essays by prominent scholars such as Lynwood Montell, Charles Wolfe, Allison Ensor, and Jeannette Keith uncover fascinating stories and personalities as they explore topics including wartime hero Alvin C. York, Socialist Party Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Kate Brockford Stockton, and even a thriving nudist colony, the Timberline Lodge.