Terra Incognita: An Annotated Bibliography of the Great Smoky Mountains, 1544-1934

Co-Editors: Anne E. Bridges and Ken Wise
Editor info: Bridges and Wise are associate professors at the UT Libraries
Publication Date: November 2013
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Synopsis: Terra Incognita is the most comprehensive bibliography of sources related to the Great Smoky Mountains ever created. Compiled and edited by three librarians, this authoritative and meticulously researched work is an indispensable reference for scholars and students studying any aspect of the region’s past. Starting with the de Soto map of 1544, the earliest document that purports to describe anything about the Great Smoky Mountains, and continuing through 1934 with the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park—today the most visited national park in the United States—this volume catalogs books, periodical and journal articles, selected newspaper reports, government publications, dissertations, and theses published during that period. Sure to become a standard resource on this rich and vital region, Terra Incognita is an essential acquisition for all academic and public libraries and a boundless resource for researchers and students of the region.