The Great Dismal: A Carolinians's Swamp Memoir (Chapel Hill Books): A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir - Softcover

Simpson, Bland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807847526 ISBN 13: 9780807847527

Publisher: University North Carolina Pr, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

[Simpson] has given us a jewel of natural and human history.

"New Yorker"

No pleasure quite matches that of reading prose that feels as natural as breathing.

"Newsday"

[An] engaging portrait.

"Publishers Weekly"

"Nature-writing at its best, classic in its fervor, sincere in its integrity, transfixing in its gem-like language.

"Christian Science Monitor""

"Mr. Simpson's book, part history and part travelogue, entices the reader to join them [previous visitors to the Great Dismal].

"Atlantic Monthly""

İSimpson¨ has given us a jewel of natural and human history.

"New Yorker"

İAn¨ engaging portrait.

"Publishers Weekly"

Nature-writing at its best, classic in its fervor, sincere in its integrity, transfixing in its gem-like language.

"Christian Science Monitor"

Mr. Simpson's book, part history and part travelogue, entices the reader to join them [previous visitors to the Great Dismal].

"Atlantic Monthly"

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University North Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0807847526
• ISBN 13: 9780807847527
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206