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Article Excerpt
EAST 40 DEGREES: An Interpretive Atlas. By JACK WILLIAMS. xv and 248 pp.; maps, ills. bibliog., index. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780813925240; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 9780813925851.
This handsomely produced, large-format volume explores four clusters of towns that the author considers part of the Appalachians. The title refers to that mountain range, which, starting from the south end, as the book does, runs on an azimuth bearing 40[degrees] east of north. The title may be mysterious, but the book announces its intentions quickly: to explicate the topographic settings and internal structures of towns that exemplify "concise urban form" (p. 223). The argument is supported by many photographs and a great variety of maps, all crisply rendered, although the book is not an atlas in the usual sense.
Williams devotes his first chapter to a comparison of two towns named "Camden," one in Alabama and the other in Maine, chosen to exemplify his ideas of how "the form of a town is rooted in its region...
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