Blue Ridge Parkway: The Story Behind the Scenery

Travel the southern Allegheny ridges 469 miles between Shenandoah and Great Smokey Mountains national parks. Discover the highlanders amid wildlife and forests.

Each book in The Story Behind the Scenery series tells a compelling story through the eyes of an experienced interpreter whose writing reflects true enthusiasm for the park. Complete with running text and interpretive captions, accompanied by abundant full-color photographs, these books will be welcome in any home library.

Blue Ridge Parkway, located in southern Virginia and northern North Carolina, was established in 1936 to protect the 469-mile-long-parkway, natural history areas and Appalachian cultural sites.

48 pp., 70 color photos, 9 maps.

Peggy Rives is a career employee of the National Park Service. After receiving her master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles, she moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Here she developed an abiding love for these mountains and deep respect for the native mountain people, their heritage and their way of life.