The Foxfire Books (Kindle Editions)

This is our bookstore catalogue page for kindle editions of The Foxfire Books series.
Our customer service staff has selected the Foxfire Book series because these books are an important recorded chronicle of useful country living information and are of historical value. A truly unusual and unique historical account and resource for researching the Appalachian Mountain country folks and their way of life.
In 1966, in the Appalachian Mountains of Northwest Georgia, Eliot Wigginton and his students founded a quarterly magazine that they named Foxfire, after the eerie phosphorescent glow emitted by a certain lichen growing on decaying logs found in the forest. In 1972, several articles from the magazine were published in book form, and the acclaimed Foxfire series was born. More than thirty years later, in this age of technology and cyber-living, the books teach a philosophy of simplicity in living that is truly enduring in its appeal. This series has sold over six million copies, a testimony to this series popularity.
These books are a written recording of a series of interviews conducted over several years with the rural mountain country people of the Great Smoky Mountains. The people interviewed were skilled in a specific handicraft, a particular skill, or had specific knowledge of mountain folk living, traditions, and customs. These books record these interviews with text and black and white photographs and illustrations.
Much more than "how-to" books, the Foxfire series is a publishing phenomenon teaching creative self-sufficiency, a rural way of life, the art of natural remedies, home crafts and skills and other country folkways, and is fascinating to everyone interested in rediscovering the virtues of a simpler life. These books were not meant to be only a series of specific how-to-do books, rather they are a recording of country living methods and skills gathered and used over the years by the Appalachian mountain folks, and how these skills and methods were used by the people at the time. Each book records and teaches creative self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and other mountain country folkways. In fact, the style of living and many of the skills and ideas recorded are still being used today.
The popularity of the Foxfire series on oral history of Appalachian lives and traditions, homespun crafts, and folk arts have become a phenomenon that spread far beyond Georgia.
The kindle books on this page are offered for sale in association with Amazon.com.

FOR BOOK DETAILS:For individual book descriptions, prices, and availability, click on the book title. Read the book details, to purchase, place your book in the shopping cart at the Amazon.com page and complete your purchase by following their instructions. Or click on your browsers back button to return to this page.
ORDERING BOOKS: To order any book on this page, click on the book title. Place your book in the shopping cart. Then click on your browsers back button to return here to select another book. When you have selected and placed your last book in the shopping cart, remain at the Amazon.com page and follow the instructions there to complete your purchase.
Ordering your books with Amazon.com through our bookstore is convenient, quick, safe and easy.
For additional books on country living, Appalachian mountain folks, or any other subject, please use the Amazon.com browsers by clicking on Browser Boxes . These browse boxes will allow you to search the entire Amazon.com web site for any book title from many subjects and categories.