Missing Mountains: We Went to the Mountaintop but It Wasn't There - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893239497 ISBN 13: 9781893239494

Publisher: Wind Pubns, 2005

Synopsis

This book deals with a subject of the gravest importance---the destruction of the Earth. Kentucky's mountains and the creatures who live there are being devastated by the coal-mining technique known as mountaintop removal.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This book addresses Kentucky's most serious environmental threat -- mountaintop-removal mining and the destruction of the Cumberland Mountains. In this collection of essays, fiction, and poetry, 35 Kentucky writers explore mountaintop removal mining in Kentucky.

The goal of this book is not cessation of all coal mining, but a demand for responsible mining practices and an end to the unnecessary destruction to the land, people, and economy of the eastern Kentucky coalfields and the planet caused by mountaintop removal. Every day many thousands of Kentuckians and residents of the Mississippi valley drink the water from streams that originate in the coal mining region of Kentucky. It's not just a local problem.

About the Author:

Bobbie Ann Mason's first short stories were published in The New Yorker, and were then included in her first book of fiction, Shiloh & Other Stories (1982). The collection won the PEN/ Hemingway Award and was nominated for the American Book Award, the PEN/ Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and she received an Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her first novel, In Country (2001), is taught widely in classes and was made into a film starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd. Both Feather Crowns (1994) and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail (2001) won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Her memoir, Clear Springs: A Family History (2000), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Mason belongs to the Authors Guild, PEN, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She is former writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky. Her most recent book, The Girl in the Blue Beret, was released in 2011.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wind Pubns
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1893239497
• ISBN 13: 9781893239494
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Kristin Johannsen, Bobbie Ann Mason, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall