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Super-scenic Motorway
Anne Mitchell Whisnant
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Description for Super-scenic Motorway
Paperback. The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was built without conflict or opposition. This book reveals that the historical archives tell a different and much more complicated story. Num Pages: 464 pages, 51 illustrations, 7 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; AMV; HBJK; RGB; RGL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 671.
This book looks at the twists and turns in the making of the scenic highway. The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was a New Deal 'Godsend for the needy', built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different and much more complicated story, which Anne Mitchell Whisnant relates in ... Read more
This book looks at the twists and turns in the making of the scenic highway. The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was a New Deal 'Godsend for the needy', built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different and much more complicated story, which Anne Mitchell Whisnant relates in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807871263
SKU
V9780807871263
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About Anne Mitchell Whisnant
Anne Mitchell Whisnant received her Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is now Director of Research, Communications, and Programs for the Office of Faculty Governance. She has served as a consultant to the National Park Service and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation. More ... Read more
Reviews for Super-scenic Motorway
"Whisnant's engagingly written and carefully researched account brings to light a more accurate picture of how the Blue Ridge Parkway came to be." - Appalachian Journal"