Our Great Smoky Mountains guide will give visitors new and deeper ways of seeing the country's most-visited national park. Featuring interviews with novelist Ron Rash and chef John Fleer, the book also includes the voices of wildlife biologists, Appalachian Trail through-hikers, members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, candy-makers, and rafting outfitters, among others. Topics covered include biodiversity, Civil War tensions, fugitives, foraging, moonshine, Cherokee language preservation, threats to old-growth forests, and more.