Description
Between North Carolinas coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lands covering almost half of the state. Geologically speaking, piedmont regions are found all over the world, but North Carolinas Piedmont is among the largest in the United States, sitting along an environmental crossroads where northern and southern flora and fauna overlap, offering an incredibly rich natural diversity. Inhabited continuously for thousands of years, the states rural heartland is today home to an increasingly dense population. Yet most who reside in the regions cities, suburbs, and smaller towns still live within reach of red-clay farmland, oak and hickory forests watered by small creeks, and rocky river valleys. These placesas they have been and as they are nowremain essential to the character of life in the South.
Through his long, celebrated writing career, Bland Simpson has earned a reputation as the bard of North Carolinas coasts and sound country. Here, for the first time, he trains his attention on Clover Garden, the Piedmont community where he has lived for some fifty years. With a naturalists eye, a storytellers mind, and a poets soul, Simpson guides readers into a deep engagement with the Piedmont, both as a material place and as an idea. Illustrated with photographs by Ann Cary Simpson, Clover Garden invites us to think more broadly about the natural and human history of the piedmont South. This book will be treasured by all who seek to live deeply in the places we call home.
Author: Bland Simpson
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781469682891
Language: English
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