The Great Dismal

A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-8078-4752-7
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 298 g

Reihe: Chapel Hill Books

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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Bland Simpson is author of <i>Into the Sound Country</i>, <i>The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey</i>, <i>The Great Dismal</i>, and <i>Heart of the Country</i>. A member of the Tony Award-winning Red Clay Ramblers, Simpson has collaborated on such musicals as <i>King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running</i>, <i>Kudzu</i>, and Broadway and international hit <i>Fool Moon</i>. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.