Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Chapel Hill Books
ISBN-10
0807847526
ISBN-13
9780807847527
Edition
New
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint
The University of North Carolina Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 28th, 1998
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
456 grams
Dimensions
21.40 x 13.80 x 1.30 cms
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This memoir blends Bland Simpson's personal experience with travel narrative, oral history and natural history to create a portrait of the Great Dismal Swamp and its people.
Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America''s most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adventurers, runaways, and romantics, and while many have tried to conquer it, none has succeeded. In this engaging memoir, Bland Simpson, who grew up near the swamp in North Carolina, blends personal experience, travel narrative, oral history, and natural history to create an intriguing portrait of the Great Dismal Swamp and its people. For this edition, he has added an epilogue discussing developments in the region since 1990. |A lyrical tribute to the Great Dismal Swamp, the mysterious wilderness straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line. Includes a new epilogue by Bland Simpson, one of the region''s most loved authors.
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