Product Description
Review content from the Tennessee Seveth Grade World Geography Curriculum Standards.... Practice in actual TCAP test Format. 118 pages ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Neighborhoods in Knoxville, Tennessee, Sharp's Ridge, Fountain City, Tennessee, Old City, Mechanicsville, Knoxville, Market Square, Knoxville, Sequoyah Hills, Tennessee, First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville Metropolitan Area, North Hills Historic District, Chilhowee Park. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sharp's Ridge is a steep limestone ridge in Knoxville, Tennessee, north of the city's downtown. A 111 acres (45 ha) area of the 7-mile (11 km) ridge is maintained as Sharp's Ridge Memorial Park, a city park dedicated to the honor of the area's war dead. The ridge also is the site of a transmitting antenna farm that serves most of Knoxville's broadcasters. The highest ground point on the ridge is an abandoned fire tower located at 1,391 feet (424 m) above mean sea level. The ridge itself averages 100 feet (30 m) above the surrounding valley floor, allowing panoramic views of the Great Smoky Mountains and adjacent ranges to the east and the Cumberland Plateau to the west. Sharp's Ridge (spelled "Sharp Ridge" on United States Geological Survey (USGS) topographical maps) is a narrow, elongate ridge characteristic of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians. The ridge stretches northeastward for approximately 7 miles (11 km) from Third Creek (near Knoxville's West Haven suburb) to Love Creek (at Mill Road, near the Oak Grove community). Beyond Love Creek, the ridge formation continues northeastward as McAnnally Ridge. The southern fringes of the Inskip and Fountain City suburbs, Christenberry Heights, and Beverly are located along the northern base of the ridge. The Lonsdale, Lincoln Park, and Whittle Springs neighborhoods of North Knoxville are located along the ridge's southern base. First Creek and Second Creek, bot...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8155102 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Rock City, St. Elmo Historic District (Chattanooga, Tennessee), Chattanooga National Cemetery, Fort Wood Historic District, Missionary Ridge, Moccasin Bend, Brown's Ferry, Tennessee, Bonny Oaks Arboretum, Heritage Park, Chattanooga, Tn. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:View of the falls A view from Rock City, 2001.Rock City is a roadside attraction near Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Lookout Mountain in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, located near Ruby Falls. It is well-known for the many barns throughout the southeast United States that have the slogan "See Rock City" painted on their roofs and sides. In total, over 900 barn roofs in nineteen states were painted by Clark Byers for Rock City. The publicity and lore claim that it is possible to see seven states from Lover's Leap, a point in Rock City, but this has not been proven scientifically. In 2006 Rock City began having daily bird shows for its visitors. The bird shows focus on birds of prey. The shows are included with paid admission to the gardens. Every fall season Rock City creates a maze using crops of corn in the valley below the gardens. The maze can be seen from the Lovers Leap lookout point. From the gardens you can view imagery and designs that have been cutout within the maze. Below at the site of the maze you can "GET LOST" and try to find your way out by answering trivia questions at certain posts along the maze of corn. There are also hay rides and other seasonal activities at the maze site. The name of this event is "The Enchanted MAIZE". Every November through December Rock City Celebrates the season by lighting the park with millions of Christmas lights and displays. The event is named "Enchanted Garden of Lights" and features seasonal booths of food and gifts, as well a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1531239 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Music Row, First American Cave, Shelby Park, Lockeland Springs, Hermitage Arboretum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Music Row is an area just to the southwest of Downtown Nashville, Tennessee that is home to hundreds of businesses related to the country music, gospel music, and Contemporary Christian music industries. Centered around 16th and 17th Avenues South (called Music Square East and Music Square West, respectively, within the Music Row area), along with several side streets, Music Row is widely considered the heart of Nashville's entertainment industry. In this area, one will find the offices of numerous record labels, publishing houses, music licensing firms, recording studios, video production houses, along with other business who serve the music industry, as well as radio networks, and radio stations. Sometimes the words "Music Row" are used as a metonymous nickname for the country music industry as a whole, just as "Madison Avenue" often refers to the advertising industry. Historical sites such as RCA's famed Studio B, where hundreds of famous musicians have recorded, are situated on Music Row. Country music entertainers Roy Acuff and Chet Atkins are memorialized with streets named in their honor in the area. The Country Music Hall of Fame was once located at the corner of Music Square East and Division Street, but the building has since been torn down and the museum moved to a new state-of-the-art building eleven blocks away in Downtown Nashville in 2001. One area of Music Row, along Demonbreun Street, was once littered with down-market tourist attractions and vanity "museums" of various country music stars. These began to disappear in the late 1990s after the closing of Opryland USA theme park (and subsequent reduction...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1783396 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Wolf River. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wolf River (Tennessee) -The Wolf River rises in the Holly Springs National Forest at Baker's Pond in Benton County, Mississippi, north of Ashland, Mississippi, and flows northwest into Tennessee, draining a large portion of Memphis and northern and eastern Shelby County, Tennessee, before entering the Mississippi River near the northern end of Mud Island, north of downtown Memphis. listed in downstream order from source to mouth The Wolf River area is home to deer, otter, mink, bobcat, fox, coyote, turkey, and a wide variety of waterfowl, reptiles, amphibians, and aquatic life. Migrating osprey, great egret, and bald eagle have been spotted along this river as well. There are Tennessee state record trees located in its bottomland forests, including a Tupelo Gum that is 17 feet (5.2 m) in circumference. Other hardwoods include green ash, red maple, swamp chestnut oak, blackgum, and the majestic bald cypress. Native flowering plants include cardinal flower, ironweed, swamp iris, false loosestrife, spatterdock, swamp rose, blue phlox and spring cress. Twenty-five species of freshwater mussels (unionidae) have been documented. Their dependence on good water quality makes them vulnerable to pollution. A growing number of these species of plants and animals can be found in the urban reaches of the Wolf in Memphis, as the legacy of community action and the Clean Water Act slowly heals the degraded downstream section. The Wolf River is estimated to be about 12,000 years old, formed by Midwestern glacier runoff carving the regions soft alluvial soil. It is one of many rivers in West Tennessee and Mississippi that prompted the Chickasaw to call the region "the land that leaks." Around 400 CE, a mass...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=683178 ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 113 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

Product Description
Introduces the geography, history, government, people, culture, and attractions of Tennessee. ... Read more

Product Description
Tennessee Handbook is a thorough guide to the music scene, Civil War sites, and the quirky side of the Volunteer State. This second edition packs in expanded information on Nashville and Memphis. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (8)

Very helpful guide for our trip to Franklin & Nashville
My husband and I travel and normally he just lets me choose our location.This year he asked if he could make a suggestion....sure, I thought, what will it be, New York, Europe, some island?Nashville, he said....Hmmmmm.An interesting choice I thought, and I know NOTHING of Nashville.Each of our trips usually starts with me getting a couple good guides and completely pouring through them and also in doing a lot of internet research, then more guide reading.My favorite guide had nothing for Tennessee, and so we went with the Moon Handbook.Though there are not any color pictures, which usually are a nice touch, I found the guides really helped me to understand what was available to do, what was recommended and gave me more choices than I could possibly ever hope to see in a week.

So, how did it go?Well, it went fantastic!We visited the Opry, The Country Music Hall of Fame, the Bluebird Cafe, where we also met the artists and cd's signed (a real treat!).We visited Franklin and learned about the 5 hour battle that was fought mostly at night and had casualties of approx. 10,000.We toured the Carter House, where you can still see bullet holes in the house and Carnton Plantation, where the home was featured in Robert Hick's best-selling novel "Widow of the South".This plantation home was used as a field hospital and now houses one of the largest privately owned Confederate Cemeteries.We went downtown and listened to music in little honky-tonk and even took in opening night for NHL's Nashville Predators.There truly is something for everyone here. The key is to have a great guide and give yourself plenty of time to get to know what is available.Couple this with a little internet research to find some of the local spots (We found a local brewery-Yazoo, that was incredibly fun, where we toured, and hung around outside listening to a little impromptu bongo/guitar music out at the picnic tables outside the taproom and talked to locals that gave us insights on their favorite spots.) We also enjoyed the JD Distillery, which is about 1.5 hours from Nashville in Lynchberg-worth the trip in my humble opinion.

The people?As nice as people tell you they are.They have a certain charm about them.Be prepared to slow down, enjoy some of the stories and just have a good time.I know we did, and the preparation we did with this guide was the beginnings of our wonderful trip.

Good information
All Moon books deserve 5 stars in my opinion. This one has just enough info. to make your trips interesting and perhaps a bit different from the norm.

Outstanding Tennessee Guidebook
We recently completed a trip to Eastern Tennessee and brought along several guidebooks.After a few days, it became apparent that one guidebook was head and shoulders above the others: Moon Handbooks Tennessee by Jeff Bradley.It is both comprehensive and concise.It contains lots of local color without drowning in it.And it is spot on in its evaluation of sights.(We didn't have any occasion to use it for lodging or food.)

Full credit to Jeff Bradley for a writing syle that is one of the best in the business.He keeps things lively without neglecting the basic facts that need to be conveyed.In almost every instance his entries were more interesting and more complete than other guidebooks, while being about the same total number of words.He seems to know just when to insert a clever turn of phrase or an offbeat tidbit while still writing in a very direct style.

The book covers all of Tennessee.It starts with general information about the state's natural history, settlement history, and culture.It then covers each region of the state.He does a good job of conveying which sights are most worth seeing in each area without neglecting second tier sights.He weaves together a complete tapestry that puts everything in the larger context of the region and the state.Throughout, there is a pervasive sense of the joy of travel in this interesting state.This guidebook is the real McCoy!

Even Tennessee history teachers should use this book
You don't have to be planning a trip to Tennessee to appreciate Jeff Bradley's book.If you are, don't leave home without it.Bradley not only tells you what you must see if you have the time, but he frankly tells you what might not be worth a visit, or at least what to be prepared for that you might not expect, such as the bumper-to-bumper, big-city-like traffic in the Smokies, especially in the fall when the leaves begin to change.He also provides interesting facts and historical details you won't find in other travel books.I grew up about 50 miles from Bean Station in East Tennessee but didn't know until reading Bradley's book that a tavern there was the best place between Baltimore and New Orleans to get a bottle of wine back in the stagecoach days. Almost every page is enriched with little-known facts, insights and advice, and the book is organized in a way that takes the frustration out of trying to find what you're looking for.

I once had a job that took me to every one of Tennessee's 95 counties, but I moved away several years ago and my children, unfortunately, know little about this beautiful state that is as geographically and culturally diverse as any in the union.I brought the fourth edition of Bradley's book when I began planning a cross-Tennessee-and-back trip my 22-year-old son and I decided to take this summer in a rented convertible.Taking Bradley's advice, we chose many roads now less traveled (since the interstates were built), visiting places like Jonesborough (Tennessee's oldest town, first capital and home of the National Stortelling Festival) in East Tennessee, Lynchburg (exactly like the Jack Daniels' ads portray it, except for the abundance of shops on the town square selling things Gentleman Jack would never have imagined, as Bradley points out) in Middle Tennessee, and Grinders Switch between Nashville and Memphis, which I had always thought was a figment of Minnie Pearl's imagination.Our trip, thanks largely to Bradley's book, was as much one of discovery for me, a native, as it was for my son, who grew up in the Northeast.

You will enjoy Bradley's book not just for its contents but also for his writing style.As the "About the Author" page notes, this Tennessee boy has been a stringer for The New York Times and taught writing at Harvard, so he knows a thing or two about sringing words together.He writes from personal knowledge of the place with respect but also with wit, honesty and a good measure of irreverence whenever he feel so moved, which is often.

Buy the book or you'll never know how far in advance you need to make reservations for lunch at Miss Bobo's Boarding House in Lynchburg, how to get to the Lovelace Motel Cafe outside of Nashville for the best country ham and biscuits, where to find worldclass white water and bluegrass music in East Tennessee, or that the Talbot Heirs Guesthouse is one of the best and funkiest places to stay in the funkiest part of Memphis, a stone's throw from Beale Street, darn good barbecue and sweet potato pancakes you'll never forget.

Mark Twain Lives!
If Mark Twain comes back from the dead to write a guidebook of the state where he was conceived (in Jamestown, as Bradley explains on p. 196), then buy that. But old Sam Clemens would be wasting his time, because in Moon Handbooks: Tennessee, Bradley's already written the "Life on the Mississippi" of Tennessee travel guides.

Like "Mississippi," Bradley's "Tennessee" is so fascinating in in its details and anecdotes that I kept finding myself reading far more than I "needed" to for the travel at hand. And like Clemens, who clearly wrote from a genuine love of the river and the bygone steamboat days that he wanted to capture on paper, all of Bradley's local lore and country cookery reviews and sidebars on everything from roots musicians to the development of the the atom bomb in Oak Ridge...well, these all swirl together to create a sort of love song to the author's native state.

Bradley isn't afraid to criticize where criticism is due--look at his coverage of the outlandish developments near the Smokies. But even then, it's clear his concerns are not based on some disaffected political agenda, but from a genuine, familial concern for a cousin who has lost his way. Consequently, Gatlinburg doesn't "outrage" Bradley, it breaks his heart because of its failed potential. And even then, Bradley doesn't just sneer and proceed into the pristine National Park, shaking Galinburg's dust from his feet. Just as any good family member will make a point of telling you that old yellow-eyed aunt Ruth used to knock 'em dead at the USO dances and can still cook a mean casserole and belt out a showtune, Bradley lingers and explores Gatlinburg on its own terms. He points out its cherished place in many Volunteer hearts (including his own) as a childhood wonderland, and shows that he's not above enjoying the small simple pleasures of a candy shop, or even the more garish wonders of Ripley's aquarium.
If you don't know Tennessee, you won't find a more comprehensive introduction to the entire state. And if you already love Tennessee...you'll find all of the states most endearing qualities captured between the covers--and in the spirit--of this book. ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 123 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 131 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more