A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia
(University of Georgia Press, 2024)
Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis, Noah Davis, and Carolyn G. Mahan recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the
intersection of art and science.
A companion volume to A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, this guide introduces the reader to seventy indigenous species found in Northern Appalachia, a region comprising parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. As a hybrid literary and natural history anthology, the book consists of descriptions and notes on habitat, range, and ecology provided by six scientists with expertise in the region’s flora and fauna. In addition, eleven artists and seventy poets have provided original artwork and poetry that illuminate the lives of the greater-than human world.
Defying easy stereotypes, the guide presents trees, shrubs, wildflowers and mammals, birds and fish, reptiles and amphibians, and invertebrates and fungi. Love and wonder for these ancient mountains and their ever-evolving residents flood the pages of this book, inviting the reader into a deeper way of knowing a place and the lives dependent on it.
Praise for A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia
“This book will appeal to people from a variety of literacies and perspectives and will open doors and hearts to the bounty of Northern Appalachia ecologies to enrich the lives of all.”
—Chris Green, author of The Social Life of Poetry: Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism
Buy: A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia
(University of Georgia Press, 2024)
Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis, Noah Davis, and Carolyn G. Mahan recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the
intersection of art and science.
A companion volume to A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, this guide introduces the reader to seventy indigenous species found in Northern Appalachia, a region comprising parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. As a hybrid literary and natural history anthology, the book consists of descriptions and notes on habitat, range, and ecology provided by six scientists with expertise in the region’s flora and fauna. In addition, eleven artists and seventy poets have provided original artwork and poetry that illuminate the lives of the greater-than human world.
Defying easy stereotypes, the guide presents trees, shrubs, wildflowers and mammals, birds and fish, reptiles and amphibians, and invertebrates and fungi. Love and wonder for these ancient mountains and their ever-evolving residents flood the pages of this book, inviting the reader into a deeper way of knowing a place and the lives dependent on it.
Praise for A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia
“This book will appeal to people from a variety of literacies and perspectives and will open doors and hearts to the bounty of Northern Appalachia ecologies to enrich the lives of all.”
—Chris Green, author of The Social Life of Poetry: Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism
Buy: A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia