Ebook: Mountains of the heart: a natural history of the Appalachians

Preface to the twentieth anniversary edition -- Introduction -- Prologue: Cheaha Mountain, Alabama -- The supple rock -- Islands in the sky, travelers on the wind -- The wooded sea -- From fertile waters -- Keeping faith with the north -- Thunder, dimly heard -- Roots in the hills -- Pinus and Castanea -- Winter in the high lands -- Seeing a forest for the trees -- Ultima Thule -- Epilogue: Mount Abraham, Vermont.