Appalachia: A History

Rating:
Summary: App-uh-latch-uh, that's how I learned to pronounce it.
Review: Any book that starts out at the Wytheville VA bus station and then goes back in time several hundred years is all right by me.
This is a large and detailed examination of an area (whose precise boundaries have always been a matter of some dispute) as a unique cultural and geopolitical construct, and I found it compelling and revealing.
I went to school at the northern edge of Appalachia and now live off the southern edge, and the land in between has always held a fascination for me.
And by the way, the cover's beautiful.