{"product_id":"the-road-to-wildcat-eleanor-risley-9780817350932","title":"The Road to Wildcat: A Tale of Mountain Alabama","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA remarkable chronicle of southern mountain life in the early 20th century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Road to Wildcat\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the travels in North Alabama in the mid-1920s of Eleanor Risley (suffering from diabetes), her asthmatic husband, Pierre, their dog, John, and a Chinese wheelbarrow named Sisyphus that held their travel goods. Advised to make the walking tour for improvement of their health, the group left Fairhope in south Alabama and walked hundreds of miles in the southern Appalachians for months, sleeping out under the stars at night, or in a canvas tent or an abandoned building, cooking their fresh-caught foods over campfires, and accepting the generosity and advice of the mountain people they met, some of them moonshiners and outlaws. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e During their sojourn across the rural wilderness, they enjoyed fiddlin' dances in rickety halls, joined Sacred Harp singers, learned about the grapevine telegraph, saw the dreadful effects of inbreeding, and attended \"Snake Night\" at Posey Holler (a religious revival that included snake handling). Published in segments in the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e in 1928 and 1929 and then reorganized into book form, the travelogue is a colorful record of the culture, customs, and dialect of the southern mountaineers of that era. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eleanor Risley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817350934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817350932\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/19\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.58w x 0.74d","brand":"Eleanor Risley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45064511193343,"sku":"9780817350932","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ece52e5b-5d4a-4370-80d0-53fe2994ae62.jpg?v=1712124490","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-road-to-wildcat-eleanor-risley-9780817350932","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}