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Booklist and Notes George Brosi Allen, Thomas J. The Butterflies of West Virginia and Their Caterpillars. Pittsburgh: University ofPittsburgh Press, 1997. 388 pages with index, glossary, figures, tables and color plates. Trade paperback. $22.95. One hundred and twenty-eight species of butterflies are displayed brilliantly in color plates and described meticulously in this outstanding guidebook. Background information on the butterfly and butterfly gardening round out the book. The author is a wildlife biologist with the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. Berry, Wendell. Two More Stories of the Port William Membership. Frarikfort, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1997. 62 pages. Hardback in dust jacket. $15.00. These stories, like those in the three previous coUections and five novels by Wendell Berry, are set in Port WUliam, Kentucky, a fictional rural community which strongly resembles Port Royal, his own home. The residents he writes about form a kind of membership because each relies explicitly upon the land to make a living and a life. The first story, "A Friend of Mine," focuses upon a farmer, Elton Penn, while the second story, "Inheritors," centers around a lawyer who raises cattle. As Wade Hall points out in his review for the Lexington Herald-Leader, "Berry's intention is not merely to paint a nostalgic portrait ofyesteryear. In fact, he offers this lifestyle as a viable alternative to dependence on the supermarket and Wal-Mart." Carnuto, Christopher. Another Country:Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains. NewYork: Henry Holt and Company, 1997. 351 pages with notes, sources, and an index. Hardback in dust jacket. $25.00. The central occasion for this book of nature writing is the release of red wolves, long extinct in this area, back into the Smoky Mountains National Park. An implicit question raised in the musings captured here is whether long-extinct peoples could ever repopulate the area and what that would mean. Thus much of die book is an exploration of the region's Cherokee heritage and its meaning. "He limns the good—the George Brosi sells both new and out-of-print books. His address is 123 Walnut Street, Berea, Kentucky 40403. Hisphone: (606)986-3262. 71 Cherokee language and customs, the reintroduction of the red wolf, the improvisational jazz to be found in the veery's song; and the bad—the savagery and sadism ofthe European conquest, cultural dismemberment, environmental degradation, pauperization ofthe land's spirit, the loss of native plants and animals, native ideas and images . . . Carnuto is humble enough, nimble enough, to sojourn successfully in these mythopoeic climes, conjuring a place portrait of swarming, satisfying complexity." —Kirkus Reviews. The author lives in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and is tiie author ofA Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge. Conley, Robert J. War Woman: A Novel ofthe Real People. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. 357 pages with a glossary. Hardback in dust jacket. $25.95. Limited historical records indicate contact in the fifteenth century between the Cherokee and both the Spanish in the Florida peninsula and the English at Jamestown as well as offering some evidence of Spanish efforts to mine gold in Cherokee territory. This novel, centering around a strong female protagonist, provides a speculative fictional link between these prehistorical events. Robert J. Conley, an Oklahoma Cherokee, has made an unprecedented contribution to the literature of his people with his easily accessible writing. This is the eighth novel in this series ofearly Cherokee history and his twenty-fourth book. Fisher, Noel C. War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee: 1860-1869. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 250 pages with maps, photos, notes, bibliography and index. Hardback in dust jacket. $29.95. "This book represents a major fresh perspective on the many faces of the Civil War, especially the relationship between conventional and partisan conflict ... It is Civil War history as it ought now to be written— across the spectrum ofpolitical, economic, social and military, events and the people who made them." —B. Franklin Cooling, author of Fort Donelson's Legacy. "No book so well demonstrates why we must go beyond traditional drum-and-bugle military history to understand the American Civil War. War at Every Door is destined to become a classic...

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