Heart of the Blue Ridge: Highlands, North Carolina

SHAFFNER, Randolph P.

ISBN 10: 0971013004 / ISBN 13: 9780971013001

Published by Faraway Publishing, Highlands, NC, 2001

About this Item

Thick octavo. 6 x 9 in. 737 pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs. Very good in original pictorial wrappers with soiling to edge of text block, one spot bleeds onto the head of first few pages. Inscribed on the title page by Shaffner in year of printing.

Seller Inventory # 7205

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Heart of the Blue Ridge: Highlands, North Carolina
• Publisher: Faraway Publishing, Highlands, NC
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971013004
• ISBN 13: 9780971013001
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Paperback Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Very good
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Appalachia

About this title

Synopsis

Recipient of the NorthCarolina Society of Historians History Book Award, 2002, and the American Association of State and Local History Award, 2005.

About the Author

Randolph Preston Shaffner, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., lives and works in Highlands where he established and managed for thirty years Cyrano's Bookshop. Having attended Davidson College, he earned his doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As an educator, he has taught for the U.S. Peace Corps in Thailand, St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fairfield University in Connecticut, and Western Carolina University at Cullowhee. As an author, he has published, apart from poems and articles, The Apprenticeship Novel, a seminal study of the "Bildungsroman," Good Reading Material, Mostly Bound and New, a history of the Hudson Library in Highlands to benefit the library, an Arcadia Images of America book on Highlands, and The Father of Virginia Military Institute, a biography of Colonel J.T.L. Preston, CSA. Under the name Faraway Publishing, he has published the first and second editions of his Heart of the Blue Ridge, Angie Jenkins' Highlands, North Carolina . . . The Early Years, Jim Green's Satulah, the Mountain, and the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust's First Creation, a history of the oldest Land Trust in North Carolina. He currently serves as archivist for the Highlands Historical Society.