Synopses & Reviews
This guidebook is the first of three regional volumes that invite residents and out-of-state visitors to explore North Carolina while reading literature from our state's finest writers. Organized geographically through a series of eighteen half-day and day-long tours in the western part of the state, the book directs curious travelers to the historic sites where Tar Heel authors have lived and worked. More than 170 writers from the past and present are featured in this volume, including Sequoyah, Elizabeth Spencer, Fred Chappell, Charles Frazier, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Robert Morgan, William Bartram, Gail Godwin, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anne Tyler, Lillian Jackson Braun, Nina Simone, and Romulus Linney.
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A unique twist to common travel guidebooks. . . . [Eubanks] makes familiar destinations new again.
--Our State
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Georgann Eubanks proves to be the perfect tour guideknowledgeable, companionable, insightful, and often surprising. A perfect book for the armchair traveler as well as the actual tourist.
--Lee Smith
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Georgann Eubanks has not written a guidebook; she has furnished a cheerful and personable and wonderfully informed companion to take us along the literary leafy tracks and briary bypaths of the North Carolina mountains. Welcome one and all, reader and traveler, to blue-green vistas of pleasure!
--Fred Chappell
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"Not just a guidebook but a wealth of information, images, book and article excerpts, the
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains: A Guidebook, written by Georgann Eubanks, would be worth reading even if you weren't traveling."
-Home & Away Magazine "Links the lives of 170 of North Carolina's visiting and native writers with mountain region destinations."
-Carolina Country "Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains underscores the state's rich literary legacy that's ongoing, and introduces folks to writers' work they may want to further explore."
-Durham Herald-Sun A unique twist to common travel guidebooks. . . . [Eubanks] makes familiar destinations new again.
-Our State "Takes the reader into shaded byways of fascinating obscurity or simply personal aspects of the region's writers and writing. There is a super-highway of information to be found on the gravel roads and winding tracks of North Carolina's mountains. . . . A welcome addition to the ever-lengthening shelf of worthwhile words about the state's rich literary heritage."
-North Carolina Literary Review Georgann Eubanks has not written a guidebook; she has furnished a cheerful and personable and wonderfully informed companion to take us along the literary leafy tracks and briary bypaths of the North Carolina mountains. Welcome one and all, reader and traveler, to blue-green vistas of pleasure!
-Fred Chappell Georgann Eubanks proves to be the perfect tour guide--knowledgeable, companionable, insightful, and often surprising. A perfect book for the armchair traveler as well as the actual tourist.
-Lee Smith
About the Author
Georgann Eubanks is a writer, teacher, and consultant to nonprofit groups across the country. She is also a principal in the Emmy-winning documentary production firm Minnow Media. She has directed the Duke University Writers' Workshop since 1989, was a founder of the North Carolina Writers' Network, and is past chair of the North Carolina Humanities Council.