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Title: Far Appalachia: Following the New River North by Noah Adams ISBN: 0-385-32013-2 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A worthwhile trip down a wonderful river...
Comment: Noah Adams follows the New River from its headwaters in North Carolina to its end in West Virginia. This is not a textbook of the river's history, geography or geological formation. Instead, it is a conversational documentary. The pace of the river seems to set the pace of the book. Some chapters sit still for a minute and gaze in detail at a plant or a fish. Some chapters offer glimpses of the residents and communities along the New River. Some chapters fly by with the the excitment and adrenalin rush of the whitewater rapids. Some chapters ponder the past, some ponder the future. It's a trip worth taking through Noah Adam's eyes, thoughts, and words.
Rating: 5
Summary: A place in time and history
Comment: In traveling the New River from North Carolina to West Virginia, Noah Adams found a part of America that sometimes stands still in time, and other times seems to go backward. Part of his journey relates to an earlier epic of his own life spent in Appalachia. Whatever the reasons, he paints a picture of the river's path that is both nostalgic and distant.
Coal mining was a big industry in much of this section of the country, but much of it is gone now. Towns, mines, have almost completely disappeared, while others are ugly blots on the landscape. And still, the New River cuts its way through mountains, creating gorges, south to north, in the same way it has done for millennia. Bridges cross it. People live beside it. And a new industry -- whitewater rafting, kayaking, and other touristy pursuits -- has encroached on its waters.
As Adams traveled the river, he met professional guides, herbalists, and others who make their livings on the river. Many, perhaps most of them love the river. Each knows some of its history, and their stories often only whet our appetites.
Readers of travels in America would enjoy this book. However, someone who once lived in North Carolina, Virginia, or West Virginia, having some knowledge of both history and geography of those areas, will be reminded of their time there and stories they may have heard. It might even make some of those who moved away want to go back. Even if only for a vist.
Rating: 5
Summary: I can't believe I loved this book
Comment: But I did. It is not at all the typical stuff I usually read. It was such an entertaining and gentle read. Adams is such a wonderful story teller. I felt as if I took that journey right beside him. As far as I am concerned, I have floated down "The New" myself now. I borrowed the book I read from my library but I am purchasing two for my Mom and my sister.
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Title: Crum: The Novel by Lee Maynard, Meredith Sue Willis ISBN: 0937058599 Publisher: West Virginia University Pub. Date: 25 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Appalachia: A History by John Alexander Williams ISBN: 0807853682 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Piano Lessons: Music, Love, & True Adventures by Noah Adams ISBN: 0385318219 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers by Horace, Kephart ISBN: 0870492039 Publisher: University of Tennessee Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1977 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Mist over the Mountains: Appalachia and Its People by Raymond Bial ISBN: 0395735696 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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