Gathers essays about the southern landscape and nature by eighteen writers with ties to the region "This is an important book—the first of its kind exclusively on the Southeast. It should appeal to general readers who wish to read about the genre in the Southeast, about the long and complex relationship between American culture and nature, and also about controversial environmental issues in the region."--John Murray, editor of American Nature Writing "I am delighted with the very concept of this anthology of Southern nature writing. There are dozens and dozens of recent scholarly books on environmental literature and anthologies of nonfiction nature writing, nature poetry, and environmental writing in general, including a number of regionally oriented collections. But, so far, other than Molly Westling's ecocritical studies of Southern fiction, few of these recent publications are explicitly devoted to Southern environmental literature. For this reason, there is a significant void that the The Woods Stretched for Miles is intended to fill—and I think it fills the void quite well."--Scott Slovic, author of Being in the World: An Environmental Reader for Writers " The Woods Stretched for Miles is by turns lively, enchanting, provocative, amusing. It will be a great gift, and a great anthology for classroom use.”-- ISLE "These writers are careful and accurate observers of both emotion and place. . . . The language is exceptional."-- Library Journal John Lane's writing has been published in Orion , American Whitewater , Southern Review, Terra Nova, and Fourth Genre. His books include Waist Deep in Black Water, The Woods Stretched for Miles , and Chattooga (all published by Georgia) , several volumes of poetry, and Weed Time ,a gathering of his essays. Lane is an associate professor of English at Wofford College.