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For more than fifty years mountain-born Earl Palmer traveled the Southern Appalachians with his camera, recording his personal vision of the mountain people and their heritage. Over these year he created, in several thousand photographs, a distinctive body of work that affirms a traditional image of Appalachia—a region of great natural beauty inhabited by a self-sufficient people whose lives are notable for simplicity and harmony.

For this book, Jean Haskell Speer has selected more than 120 representative photographs from Palmer's collection and has written a biographical and critical commentary based on extensive interviews with the photographer. Palmer's photographs, Speer argues, are significant cultural statements that depict not so much a geographical region as a particular idea of Appalachia.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xi-2
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  1. Eternal Mountaineer
  2. pp. 3-16
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  1. Portraits
  2. pp. 17-28
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  1. Country Roads
  2. pp. 29-40
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  1. Making a Home in the Mountains
  2. pp. 41-52
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  1. Making a Living
  2. pp. 53-78
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  1. Made by Hand
  2. pp. 79-102
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  1. Mountain Rituals
  2. pp. 103-123
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 124-126
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  1. Selected Publications by Earl Palmer
  2. pp. 127-128
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