Help Hub City publish "George Masa's Wild Vision" by Brent Martin

There’s an important untold story in Western North Carolina, and with your help, we have just the person to tell it. For the past year, Brent Martin, a nature writer and long-time environmental steward, has been hard at work on a manuscript for a book called George Masa’s Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina. Masa, known as “the Ansel Adams of the Smokies” documented a period of great transition in the mountains in the 1920s and ‘30s.

Hub City Press, the South’s premier literary publisher, intends to publish Brent’s book—along with more than 100 of Masa’s gorgeous photographs—in spring 2022. A not-for-profit publisher since 1995, Hub City has begun a campaign to raise $10,000 to fund the printing of Martin’s book. We are thrilled to work with Brent, who explores the locations of Masa’s photographs in order to contrast, lament, and exalt the condition of the landscape that this underappreciated photographer so loved and worked to protect.

All donors to this campaign will be acknowledged in the book, which will be distributed to stores throughout the United States. Donors also will receive a signed copy and a note from Brent. Will you help us make Brent’s book a reality? Contributions can be made at hubcity.org/masa or in the enclosed envelope. Donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

Hub City Press—whose books have been reviewed recently in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle—would be most grateful for your participation. We know Brent Martin will be, too. Please consider being a part of this wonderful project. (Please note: donations over $100 will be acknowledged.)