Animals in the Great Smoky Mountains embark on a dangerous journey of survival in this educational adventure book for ages 7-13 about the places where wildlife must cross roads. This compelling, accessible narrative is perfect for introducing readers to the problems and solutions around the global issue of roadway ecology, animal migration, and the 'barrier effect.' Best friends Bear and Deer grew up on the North side of a beautiful Appalachian gorge. In the time of their grandparents, animals could travel freely on either side of a fast-flowing river, but now the dangerous Human Highway divides their home range into the North and South sides. On the night of a full moon, two strangers arrive from the South with news that will lead to tough decisions, a life-changing adventure, and new friends joining in a search for safe passage.

A Search for Safe Passage

Children's Books

Figart, Frances

Animals

Smokies Life

Fishes of the Smokies

Science & Math

Fisher, Grant

Biological Sciences

When an enterprising 10-year-old Mabel lures a black bear to a picnic table outside her family's rental cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains, her twin sister Louise is injured, setting both on a mission to teach others about how to stay safe and keep bears wild. This rhyming picture book for ages five to ten pairs charming, sensitive illustrations with a timely environmental conservation message. When the adventurous Mabel goads her shy sister Louise into sneaking out of their family's rental cabin in the middle of the night, she's delighted to see that her secret plan to lure a black bear with leftover French fries has worked. But when the startled bear injures her sister Louise, Mabel discovers that making human food available to wild animals can have serious consequences. With help from their parents and a friendly wildlife biologist, the twins learn how to be responsible environmental stewards in bear country and grow up to educate others about how to safely coexist with black bears. An educational bonus section developed by the national BearWise® organization provides real-world guidance for safe food and waste storage in bear country. Additional sections profile the regional Smokies BearWise and Appalachian Bear Rescue--an organization that rehabilitates bear cubs who are orphaned in and around Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mabel's environmental theme addresses a pressing issue relevant to communities near wild areas all over the world. When bears can easily access the foods humans eat and feed their pets, they may no longer forage for their natural foods and instead become "food conditioned," further increasing the chances of human-bear conflict and perpetuating dangerous patterns of behavior, which are passed on to their young. Mabel Meets a Black Bear depicts the harmful and sometimes-deadly effects of irresponsible behavior in bear country and offers inspiring, grassroots solutions for wildlife advocates of all ages.

Mabel Meets a Black Bear

Children will delight in this fantastic tale of a young girl's vacation in the Smoky Mountains. Wandering from her tent late one summer's night, Sara finds an invitation she just can't resist! She watches the grand ball from safely behind a tree until suddenly she is discovered. Author Lisa Horstman is the winner of the Dr.Seuss Picture Book Award for her first children's book Fast Friends. The Great Smoky Mountains Salamander Ball won the National Park Service First Place Award for Excellence.

The Great Smoky Mountain Salamander Ball

Lisa Horstman

Literature & Fiction

This is it! The ultimate pocket-sized day hike guide to the Great Smoky Mountains. Written by esteemed Smokies sage Carson Brewer it covers 34 of the best day hikes, from easy to strenuous, in the national park plus all the self-guiding nature trails. It includes individual, beautifully-detailed shaded relief maps for each hike, plus highly-accurate elevation profile charts, and 26 photographs. It features all the best: Chimney Tops, Rich Mtn. loop, Rainbow Falls, Andrews Bald, Old Settlers, Laurel Falls, Albright Grove, Mt. Cammerer, Boogerman Loop, Charlies Bunion, Mt. Le Conte, Grotto Falls, Smokemont loop, and more.

Day Hikes of the Smokies

Sports & Outdoors

Brewer, Carson

Hiking & Camping

This extraordinary book is based on research conducted by William Banks on the Cherokee Indian Reservation in the 1950s. It describes traditional Cherokee uses for more than 300 plants — medicinals, edibles, natural dyes, and more. Banks documented herbal treatments for a huge range of ailments, everything from coughs and colds to rheumatism, diabetes, and cancer, back when some Cherokee elders still practiced the old ways. Published by Great Smoky Mountains Association, it includes wonderful botanical illustrations.

Plants of the Cherokee

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Banks, William H.

Cooking by Ingredient

Waterfalls of the Smokies is a totally-revised and greatly-expanded, full-color guide to over 40 waterfalls in the Smokies. It includes maps, photographs, and detailed directions to each waterfall, including elevations and difficulty of hike. The handy pocket size features rounded corners and long-lasting sewn binding. Published by Great Smoky Mountains Association.

Waterfalls of the Smokies

Horace Kephart's classic has withstood the test of time as the definitive guide to hiking, camping, cabin making, camp cooking, and outdoor survival. Incredibly, it has undergone nearly 70 printings and is one of the best selling books on the out-of-doors ever published. This edition contains special features and many improvements from the previous editions, such as rare photos, an 80-page introduction with a concise biography, and an expanded index.

Camping and Woodcraft

Kephart, Horace

Outdoor Cooking

Horace Kephart's classic has withstood the test of time as the definitive guide to hiking, camping, cabin making, camp cooking, and outdoor survival. Incredibly, it has undergone nearly 70 printings and is one of the best-selling books on the out-of-doors ever published. This edition contains special features and many improvements from the previous editions, such as rare photos, an 80-page introduction with a concise biography, and an expanded index.

History

Americas

Corn From a Jar: Moonshining in the Great Smoky Mountains

About the Author\nDaniel S. Pierce is professor of history at the University of North Carolina in Asheville. His other books include Tar Heel Lightnin': How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World,The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park, Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France, and Hazel Creek: The Life and Death of an Iconic Mountain Community.\nIn the Great Smoky Mountains, moonshine making was a world unto itself. On the one hand, moonshining was about dynamite-totting lookouts, fast cars, snitching, quick cash, hidden stills, "revenuers," and deadly gunplay. On the other, it was a story of earnest farm families living in remote mountain valleys and practicing their traditional craft of moonshining so they could buy shoes for their children. Yet perhaps the most fascinating aspect of this book is the sudden resurgence of making moonshine in the Southern mountains today.\nJoin author and noted historian Dr. Daniel S. Pierce to learn about the traditions, foibles, and dangers of mountain "blockading" from the early 19th century to tomorrow.

Corn from a Jar: Moonshining in the Great Smoky Mountains

Pierce, Daniel S.

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A Search for Safe Passage

Fishes of the Smokies

Mabel Meets a Black Bear

The Great Smoky Mountain Salamander Ball

Day Hikes of the Smokies

Plants of the Cherokee

Waterfalls of the Smokies

Camping and Woodcraft

Camping and Woodcraft

Corn from a Jar: Moonshining in the Great Smoky Mountains