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The Great Dismal: A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir (Chapel Hill Books)
Bland Simpson
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Description for The Great Dismal: A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir (Chapel Hill Books)
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 208 pages, 39 illustrations, 2 maps, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; WN; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Chapel Hill Books
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807847527
SKU
V9780807847527
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Ref
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About Bland Simpson
Bland Simpson is author of Into the Sound Country, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey, The Great Dismal, and Heart of the Country. A member of the Tony Award-winning Red Clay Ramblers, Simpson has collaborated on such musicals as King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running, Kudzu, and Broadway and international hit Fool Moon. He teaches in the Creative Writing ... Read more
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