JIM PARHAM grew up North Georgia. The author of numerous outdoor guidebooks, he has hiked, biked, and paddled extensively throughout the Southeast.

I suspect there are at least 25 waterfall guidebooks for this general region: Western North Carolina, East Tennessee, northwestern South Carolina, and north Georgia. Do we need another one? The answer is: Yes, we do, if it's a good one like Jim Parham's recently published Waterfall Hikes of North Georgia. Parham's book isn't just good. In regard to basic content--driving and hiking directions, general and specific maps, elevation profiles and trailhead GPS coordinates, and waterfall photos--it's really good. And in regard to trail-waterfall descriptions, it's excellent. The prose is crisp and lively. Parham has an eye for details and a gift for describing what he sees in a concise manner. He also has a nice sense of the tensions that exist where the natural world and recent human activities intersect along old rail beds, at former CCC camps, and similar locations.--George Ellison "author of Blue Ridge Nature Journal"

The pefect book if you appreciate waterfalls as resting places along your hike!-- "Woodlands Edge Outfitters, Dahlonega, Georgia"

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Pub date: 2011-04-01

Length: 312 pages