George EllisonGeorge Ellison was an iconic writer of Western North Carolina and lived directly adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee Indian Reservation. He was the author of High Vistas: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Western Noth Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains; Mountain Passages: National and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains; Permanent Camp: Poems, Narratives and Renderings from the Smokies; and Literary Excursions of the Southern Highlands: Essays on Natural History and coauthor of Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography . Read More Read Less