Hiking Appalachain Topographic Culture

Some of the most famous ground in the mid-Atlantic region is high ground. In this book, we hike the clifftops above Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, the high dune beside the Assateague Lighthouse, the mountaintop meadow at Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park, the summit of the Maryland Catoctins.In this book of maps and essays, we see high ground as a multi-faceted concept, exploring aspects as diverse as gourmet wild food of the mountaintops, forest aesthetics of high cliffs, perspectives on astronomy from a wilderness plateau.We see the earth in a new way.