"Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of "instant divorce," Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the...

Examines how mountain dwellers "of seven different communities--from the Himalayas to the Rockies--"deal with "threats to their way of life and livelihood."

The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people," "offals," "rubbish," "lazy lubbers," and "crackers." By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called "clay eaters" and "sandhillers," known for prematurely-aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature...

The Cahulawassee River is soon to be destroyed, along with the beautiful country that surrounds it. Eager to see it before it's gone, adventurer and outdoor fanatic, Lewis, organizes a trip for himself and his three friends, Ed, Drew and Bobby. They will canoe their way from top to bottom in search of great adventure. What they don't know is that they are in for much more than they originally bargained. Two mountain men take Ed and Bobby hostage....

In The Clampetts meet Mrs. Drysdale, the blue blood begins boiling when the Hillbillies move into an exclusive Beverly Hills neighborhood. In Jethro goes back to school, get ready for some fancy ciphering when "Jethro goes back to school"--Fifth grade will never be the same. In Elly's first date, it's a Thanksgiving the Clampetts will never forget when Granny cooks up a mess of vittles for Sonny Drysdale. In Jed pays his income tax, laugh out loud...