Chapel Hill Books

A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir

By: Bland Simpson

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Paperback | 28 September 1998 | Edition Number 2

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208 Pages

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New edition

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22.23 x 13.97 x 1.91

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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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Mr. Simpson's book, part history and part travelogue, entices the reader to join them [previous visitors to the Great Dismal]."Atlantic Monthly" Nature-writing at its best, classic in its fervor, sincere in its integrity, transfixing in its gem-like language."Christian Science Monitor" ï¿½Simpsonï¿½ has given us a jewel of natural and human history."New Yorker" ï¿½Anï¿½ engaging portrait."Publishers Weekly" "Mr. Simpson's book, part history and part travelogue, entices the reader to join them [previous visitors to the Great Dismal]."Atlantic Monthly"" "Nature-writing at its best, classic in its fervor, sincere in its integrity, transfixing in its gem-like language."Christian Science Monitor"" No pleasure quite matches that of reading prose that feels as natural as breathing."Newsday" [Simpson] has given us a jewel of natural and human history."New Yorker" [An] engaging portrait."Publishers Weekly"

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