NATIONAL PARK SYSTEMNorth Carolina
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including national parks, monuments, historic sites, and other park areas
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19th CENTURY WHALING TALES. by James Temple Brown and Gustav Kobbe.
Pursuing the world's largest mammal in boats powered only by sail and oar.
Perhaps the sea's highest adventure was the
whaling chase, as great or greater than exploring uncharted waters. Why else
would men risk their lives and their families' securities? The money could be
good, too, and for some, there was the chance at freedom, for the industry was
mainly blind as to skin color at a time when opportunities for non-whites were
scarce. The whaling industry flourished for two centuries, and its traditions are recounted in
seaport museums and the stories here:
"Stray Leaves from a Whaleman's Log" is reprinted from Century
Magazine, 1893. It tells about chasing of whales on a cruise from the standpoint of
the individual whaleman.
" The Perils and Romance of Whaling" came out in Century
Magazine in 1890. It gives more of the detail of the subject and also includes
anecdotes of episodes from the early days.
A final section "Cutting in and Trying
Out" explains the butchering process. Period illustrations. 48 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
Inventory = in stock. ISBN-10: 0-89646-089-4.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-089-8. Order #: VIST0089 paper $4.95.
Parks and museums now tell of this
period of history, for instance at New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park in
Massachusetts and Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut.
ANIMAL FRIENDS OF THE SMOKIES. by Fran Hubbard.
Children's book on how animals of Great Smoky
Mountains live through year, including "teeth are like tools", "facts about feet". Some of the animals included are bear, deer, lion, fox, weasel, mink, opossum, vole, bats, and beavers. Mentions species that were once present but are now gone. Illustrations by Bob Hines, 32 large-format pages.
Inventory = 6. ISBN: None. 1981. Order #: AWAN6164 paper$4.95.
AT HOME IN THE SMOKIES: a history handbook for Great Smoky Mountains National Park. by Wilma Dykeman & Jim Stokely.
National Park Service Handbook #125 to
people who settled and lived in these Tennessee/North Carolina mountains:
native Americans,
history, historical sites. Includes Cherokee presence, pioneers, sawmills, creation of the park, local handicrafts. Also sections on Oconaluftee, Cades Cove, and other historic sites in the park and nearby. Historical illustrations, 160 pages, index.
Inventory = 3. ISBN: 024-005-00902-7. 1984. Order #: USGB4605 paper$8.95.
THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY. by Harley E. Jolley.
Describes the origins, development and beauty of this 469 mile scenic road that follows the crest of ridges and mountains on a ribbon-like course through scenery with vistas and past mountaineer residences and villages. Tells the political story leading up to the parkway's beginning and of the design and construction challenges to provide a road designed for pleasure instead of speed with no ugly scars on the landscape and opportunities to retain rustic settings while also providing travelers' modern conveniences and recreational opportunities.
Mileage log of points along the way, bibliography, photographs, 184 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-87049-100-8. 1969. Order #: UNTN1267 paper$9.95.
THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY. Jolley.
Conception of this ridgeline road, history of land and
people along the route, and guide. Photos, 186 pages.
Inventory = 2. ISBN: 0-87049-0-5. 1969. Order #: CORU2196 paper$5.95.
BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY: the story behind the scenery (NC/VA). Rives.
Ranges and ridges, mountain settlers, building the parkway. 70 color photos, 48
large-format pages.
Inventory = 4. ISBN: 0-916122-81-6.1. 1982 . Order #: KCPU3812 paper$8.95.
FORT RALEIGH and the first English settlement in the New World (NC). by Charles W. Porter III.
National Park Service Handbook 130. Settlement at Fort Raleigh and at Roanoake, Virginia, by Sir Walter Raleigh. Customs and life of Native Americans when the colonists arrived, with watercolor drawings of the Indians by John White as "Portraits of a New World. Chapters also include "Exploration of Roanoke Island", "Raleigh's First Colony", "The Lost Colony of 1587", "Links with Jamestown and New England", and "Search for the 'Cittie of Ralieigh;"
Dwellings and forts were built by the diverse skilled workmen of the colony, but re-supply ships did not come as expected and at one point the entire colony sailed back to England with Sir Francis Drake. Historical black-and-white and color photographs and drawings, suggested readings, 56 pages.
Inventory = 7. ISBN: 024-005-00959-1. 1985. Order #: USGB8816 paper$4.95.
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS & SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARKS, BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY and surrounding area. by Dorothy Millikan.
Rand McNally National Parks Recreation Directory published in cooperation with National Parks Foundation. Includes Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Baltimore; Knoxville; and Chattanooga. Describes points of interest and rates each by must visit, worth visiting, and visit if time permits. Includes guided tours, seasons, gateways, scenic overlooks and drives, terrain, and activities plus concise coverage of the major sights of leading nearby cities. Color photographs, maps, 176 large-format pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-528-84759-7. 1984. Back cover bent, scuffed. Order #: RAMC2399 paper$9.95.
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, SOUTHERN BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY. by Rand McNally.
Rand McNally National Parks Recreation Directory. Including surrounding area, Atlanta, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. History and sightseeing opportunities and scenic drives and tours are presented for localities, parks, and museums. Verify data pre-trip. Maps, 160 pages.
Inventory = 6. ISBN:0-528-84762-7. 1984. Order #: RAMC2952 paper $3.95.
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS: wonderland for boys and girls. by Lura D. Dickson.
Describes features of this
national park in juvenile format--domes and balds, wildlife, pioneers, waterfalls, more. Illustrated, 144 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: None. 1968. Order #: MISC9388 paper$6.00.
GREAT SMOKY
MOUNTAINS: the story behind the scenery(VA). Canter.
Shaping land, wildlife and
flowers, hill people of national park in NC/TN. 46 color photos, 48 large-format pages. 1979.
Inventory = 10. ISBN:
0-916122-59-X. 1981. Second printing. Order #: KCPU0743 paper$8.95.
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARKby Ruth Radlauer.
Historical and geographical features: pioneers and their ways of building houses, raising food, making molasses, home-made music. Color photos and maps, 48 pages. Grades 4-5.
Inventory = 6. ISBN: 0-516-47489-8. Order #: CHIL5722 paper$4.95.
GUILFORD COURTHOUSE.by Courtland T. Reid.
Battle of Guilford Courthouse (1781)--beginning of end of Revolutionary War. Although a British victory, their win left them so weak they lost the overall campaign to defeat the Americans. Includes events leading up to this battle, officers, uniforms of the soldiers and militia. Maps show battle lines and points of interest. Drawings, photographs, suggested readings, 44 pages.
Inventory = 2. ISBN: 024-005-0019-4. 1961. Order #: USGB2362 paper $4.75.
HIKING GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS. by Rodney & Priscilla Albright.
Describes 42 walks in detail and suggests 38 more in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Includes hikes in Cades Cove, Cucumber Gap, Pinnacle Creek,
Sugarland Mountain, more. Lists for each trail its length, degree of difficulty, access, and points of current and historical interest. Comments are made on environmental changes in the park including reintroduction of river otter and red wolf. Includes comprehensive bird list. 14 maps, 12 photos, 160 pages--small for easier carrying on the trail..
Inventory = 1. 1-56440-378-5. Order #: GLPE7883 paper$9.95.
THE LIGHT-HOUSES OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1874. by Charles Nordhoff & Gustav Kobbe.
Showing lighthouses and keepers on all U.S. coasts--Pacific, Atlantic,
Gulf, and Great Lakes, with three extra articles by Gustav Kobbe: "Life in a Lighthouse",
and if that isn't lonely enough there comes "Life on the South Shoals Lightship".
Last is "Heroism in the Lighthouse Service".
Here are four articles on that romantic historic aspect of the maritime
industry--the lighthouse. The first is a history and survey of lighthouses to
1874, giving a look at the federal service that operated them and how the
lighthouses were run as well as their importance to shipping when when a light
was main--sometimes the only--navigational aid. Then there are insights into
keepers' lives in one of the most exposed lighthouses ever built (Minot's Ledge outside
Boston Harbor). Portrayed, too is the role played by offshore lights on anchored ships.
And recalled, too, are dramas and devotion to fellow man and duty that must
never be forgotten. First published at the pre-1900 time when lighthouses held
greatest importance: Lighthouses remain intriguing for
their function and dramatic vertical architecture, and are now historic, recalling dramas of the past. Many
of the lighthouses described are in national and state park areas and are
maintained as historic sites, with museums and visitor centers open to the
public. In many you can still climb to the top for a view keepers once saw. A
visit to one of these is all the more meaningful with the insights gained
from this collection of articles. 75 period engravings. 64 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
Inventory = in stock in quantity. ISBN-10: 0-89646-086-X.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-086-7. Order #: VIST0086 paper $6.95.
MOUNTAIN HOME: the Walker family farmstead, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. by Robert R. Madden and T. Russell Jones.
Genealogy of the family and early history of the house's occupants, of the farmstead adjacent to the house, construction style of squared logs, layout of rooms and functions, furnishings, hand-made products, adaptation of the family to the mountain ways of living. Photographs, drawings 55pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 024-005-00671-1. 1977. Front cover top edge ragged. Order #: USGB9578 paper$9.50.
MOUNTAINS AND MEADOWLANDS ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY. by William A. Bake.
Presents the scenic beauty available to
travelers of the Blue Ridge Parkway, from Pennsylvania t o Georgia. Covers not only mountains and meadowlands but also the wildflowers and trees plus animals and the mountain folk whose villages and homesites and even gravesites occur along the way along with local handicrafts and music. Color photographs, 46 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 024-005-00598-6. 1975. Order #: USGB2348 paper$5.95.
ON THE SPINE OF TIME: an angler's love of the Smokies. Harry Middleton.
Evokes the deep, rich beauty
of the Great Smoky Mountains while introducing local characters and bringing to life the
pleasures of fishing its trout-filled streams. Part autobiography and part homage to the two old men who taught him to love the outdoors. Filled with neat anecdotes and salty reflections. Award-winner. 240 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN:0-671-69141-4 1991. Order #: SISC7154 cloth $18.95.
SIGNALS OF THE SEA AND HEROES OF THE SURF: the epic story of America's light-houses and life-savers, written at their heyday. by Arthur Hewitt and John R. Spears.
Two of the most romantic traditions of the sea are here combined to form the content of this book--light-houses and
life-savers. Stories of the work of the keepers and savers span the range from daytime
monotony, and even loneliness, between storms, to the thrill of daring sea rescues in
raging winter surf. Through all, dedication of the men involved shines as brightly as the
lights they tended and as steadily as their massive surfboats while heading through the
breakers to sea. Reprinted from The Outlook for 1903 and 1904. Good
reading for anyone intending to visit the many lighthouses and life-saving
stations maintained as historic sites on all U.S. coasts. Period engravings. 24 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
Inventory = in stock. ISBN-10: 0-89646-088-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-088-1. Order #: VIST0088 paper $4.95.
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN COOK BOOK. by Ferne Shelton..
Over 175 old-timey Highland recipes and remedies from the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains: apple brown betty, gooseberry preserves, roasted quail, fried green apples, Smoky Mountain mystery cake, rhubarb nectar, corn pones, pickled d crab apples, and many more both unusual and more traditional. 32 pages.
Inventory = 4. ISBN: None. 1964. Order #: HUTC0622 paper $3.95.
THE STORY OF THE FLIGHT AT KITTY HAWK. Stein.
Children's history about how the Wright Brothers invented and flew the first airplane. Illustrated, 31 pages.
Inventory = 5. ISBN: 0-516-44614-2. Order #: CHIL2059 paper$3.95.
A TRAVELER'S GUIDE TO THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS REGION. by Jeff Bradley.
Features museums, events of the
southern Appalachians of Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, & Georgia. Includes famous attractions like Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Cumberland Gap, the Biltmore Estate and also the back roads and hills, illuminating the uniqueness of this region's people. Maps, 288 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-91678-64-4. 1985. Order #: KAMP0698 paper$10.95.
THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE--1880:
predecessor to today's Coast Guard. by J. H. Merryman.
Story of chain of life-saving stations that once lined all U.S.
coasts--Atlantic, Gulf, Great Lakes, Pacific--with rescue dramas, apparatus and
technique used by heroic federal surfmen. The U.S. Life-saving Service was at its heyday when this material was written in 1880.
Shipping was a busy industry among the seaport cities, yet navigation was often unsure,
and storms poorly predicted. Wrecks were all too common; ships in peril were even run
toward shore to founder them where they would be closer to possible rescue. A chain of
life-saving stations on all four U.S. coasts was therefore established to save lives.
Accounts of heroism at these lonely outposts remain amazing--and chilling. Our author was
chief inspector of the board examining these station's crews. He tells of the
organization of the Service, the desperate need for the life saving function, of
rescues, and of rescue methods and apparatus. Today many of these stations
are maintained as historic reminders of past deeds, and several are in parks and/or
include museums. Some provide demonstrations of how rescues were made in the surf and by
lifeboats. Read this book and visit one or several of the stations on any coast
for an appreciation of the life-saving service heritage. 79 period illustrations. 64 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
Inventory = in stock in quantity. ISBN-10: 0-89646-071-1.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-071-3. Order #:
VIST0071 paper$6.95.
WORTHWHILE PLACES: correspondence of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Horace M. Albright. edited by Joseph W. Ernst.
Illustrates a remarkable public-private partnership that helped shape our national park system, documented through 211 letters covering a 36-year period. Rockefeller and Albright shared a common concern and love of America;s natural had historic heritage and combined the opportunities of both the private sector by Rockefeller and the public one of Albright, a National Park Service director who remained active in parks conservation his entire life. Parks involved include--in some cases as to their establishment: Acadia, Grand Teton, Great Smoky Mountains, Yosemite, Virgin Islands as well as other areas such as the California Big Trees, Florida's Bald Cypress Swamp, and Virginia's Colonial Williamsburg. Photographs, maps, 366 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-8032-1330-7. 1991. Order #: MISC2732 paper $14.95.
List of National Park System areas in North Carolina:
Appalachian National Scenic Trail
Blue Ridge Parkway
Blue Ridge National Heritage Area
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Cape Lookout National Seashore
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
Moores Creek National Battlefield
Oveermountain Victory National Historic Trail
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
Wright Brothers National Memorial
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