Landscape Architecture Professor Jack Williams has written “East 40 Degrees: An Interpretive Atlas” which examines the towns along the Appalachian mountain chain. Professor Williams delves into the layers of each town’s history and geography to reveal how both their diverse cultural and social circumstances and their geological history were instrumental in forming each town’s distinctive character. The “east 40 degrees” of the book title runs from Alabama through 15 states to the coast of Maine. “East 40 Degrees” should appeal to architects and landscape architects, planners, environmental historians, ecologists, geographers and anyone interested in the history and origins of our modern landscapes and towns. For more information, contact Jack Williams at . You may order “East 40 Degrees” from the University of Virginia Press.