From the back cover of the North Point paperback:

The Red River Gorge is an uncultivated area of great natural beauty near the western edge of the Cumberland Plateau. Twenty years ago, a large portion of this scenic wilderness was destined to be drowned under the waters of a man-made lake. Deeply outraged and profoundly saddened by the impending loss, Wendell Berry and Ralph Eugene Meatyard set out to preserve their experiences of this unique and beautiful place.

This book represents two visions among many that ultimately saved the Gorge from destruction. Happily not an epitaph to one place, it remains a relevant homage to wild places everywhere.

132 pages.

First Sentences:

It is a country of overtowering edges. Again and again, walking down from the wooded ridgetops above the Red River Gorge one comes into the sound of water falling - the steady pouring and spattering of a tiny stream that has reached its grand occasion.