Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807871263)

The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was a New Deal "Godsend for the needy," built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different and much more complicated story, which Anne Mitchell Whisnant relates in this revealing history of the beloved roadway.

Author: Anne Mitchell Whisnant
ISBN-10: 0807871265
ISBN-13: 9780807871263
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2010
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.38w x 1.12d