The University of Georgia Press has bought Milestone Press, which specializes in guide books for the Southern Appalachian region. Milestone has 22 active titles, and new titles will be published under the Milestone Press imprint.
Founded in 1992 by Mary Ellen Hammond and Jim Parham, Milestone Press titles that cover a range of outdoor activities: backpacking, motorcycle touring, day hikes and family hikes, remote and urban hiking, mountain biking and road biking, as well as waterfall and wildflower trail hikes in and around the Southern Appalachians. The first title UGA Press will publish under the Milestone Press imprint is Backpacking Overnights: North Georgia Mountains and Southeast Tennessee by Jim Parham, which will appear in May.
"We are pleased to pass the Milestone Press torch to Georgia's oldest and largest publisher, and happy that our titles and authors have found such a good home there," Hammond said.
Parham added: "Mary Ellen and I are confident UGA will do a great job continuing what we began with our first guidebook more than 25 years ago: providing reliable, up-to-date adventure information in an easy-to-use format."
UGA Press director Lisa Bayer commented: "As a leading publisher of respected nature guides with our Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books and Georgia River Network Guidebooks, the UGA Press is excited for this opportunity to expand our list and publish on new topics of interest to the citizens of the region. Milestone Press's strong reputation for quality publishing makes it a perfect fit for the University of Georgia Press."