Böcker av Donald Edward Davis

Tells the story of the American chestnut from Native American prehistory through the Civil War and the Great Depression. Davis documents the tree's impact on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century American life, including the decorative and culinary arts.

Spanning a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, this work explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environments. It covers more than 400 years of geological, ecological, anthropological and historical development in the region.

This unique survey of the environmental history of the southern United States explores the ecological, social, and economic interaction between humans and the environment in the South over the last 20,000 years.