The highland forests of southwestern Virginia were a sacred land to Native Americans and one they relied upon for sustenance. After European contact, this beautiful country drew successive waves of settlers and visitors, and for a brief yet intense period, industrialists rapaciously exploited its timber resources, particularly in the higher elevations where the woodlands had survived the nearby valleys generations of agricultural use. This is the story of how various peoples have regarded this land over the centuries and how, starting in the early twentieth century, the federal government...
The highland forests of southwestern Virginia were a sacred land to Native Americans and one they relied upon for sustenance. After European conta...
Lao drives an old school bus from the eastern seaboard toward the west, vowing to pick up every hitchhiker he sees. Various travelers join him throughout the mid-continent as they make their wending way. This becomes an adventure from old lives lived in old places, merging into the mystical Basin and Range landscape. People and love are found and lost through brooding philosophical journeys of wonder, doubt, and hope that teeters between abandonment and affirmation . . . as they all move toward some ultimate fulfillment of mythological destiny. This is Will Sarvis's fourth novel. Other works...
Lao drives an old school bus from the eastern seaboard toward the west, vowing to pick up every hitchhiker he sees. Various travelers join him through...
