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John Parris (1914–1999)

Author of Roaming the Mountains with John Parris

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Works by John Parris

Roaming the Mountains with John Parris (2016) 35 copies

These storied mountains (1972) 33 copies

My Mountains, My People (2017) 23 copies

Mountain bred (1967) 22 copies

Mountain Cooking (1978) 12 copies

The Cherokee Story (1951) 11 copies

Commercial law made simple (Made simple books) (1972) 6 copies

The lion of Caprera; a biography of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1962) 5 copies

Springboard to Berlin (2015) 4 copies

Parris's Standard Form of Building Contract: JCT 98 (1985) 4 copies

Roaming The Mountains (1956) 3 copies

MY MOUNTAINS, MY PEOPLE; ROAMING THE MOUNTAINS; MOUNTAIN BRED; THESE STORIED MOUNTAINS 1 copy

Scapegoat: Inside Story of the Trial of Derek Bentley (1991) 1 copy

Default by sub-contractors and suppliers (1985) 1 copy

Making commercial contracts (1988) 1 copy

Under my Wig 1 copy

Cherokee Story 1 copy

Roaming the Mountains with John Parris 1 copy

Associated Works

The fight for freedom: Palermo, 1860 (1968) — Translator, some editions — 19 copies

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. (2) Appalachia (15) Appalachian (2) Appalachian history (4) Author signed regional box set (4) botany (4) Box 14 (4) Cherokee (4) cookbook (2) cooking (2) crafts (3) fiction (2) First Edition (7) folklore (10) folktales (3) folkways (2) history (6) la_1 (2) linguistics (4) memoir (5) Missing slip cover (3) mountain lore (4) nature (2) non-fiction (6) North Carolina (9) North Carolina history (4) signed (5) Smokies (3) travel (4) WNC (2)

Common Knowledge

Legal name: Parris, John A.
Birthdate: 1914-11-23
Date of death: 1999-05-17
Gender: male
Occupations: Newspaper Correspondent, Foreign Correspondent, Columnist,
Relationships: Dorthy Luxton Parris (wife)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Sylva, NC, USA
Places of residence: Sylva, North Carolina, USA
Place of death: Sylva, North Carolina, USA
Associated Place (for map): North Carolina, USA

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Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award

My Mountains, My People (Winner – 1958)

Statistics

Works: 18
Also by: 1
Members: 165
Popularity: #128,475
Rating: ½ 3.5

ISBNs: 17

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