Great Dismal

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Great Dismal

A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir

History of the Americas Nature and the natural world: general interest Local history

Author: Bland Simpson

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Collection: Chapel Hill Books

Language: English

Published by: The University of North Carolina Press

Published on: 9th November 2000

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 4 Mb

ISBN: 9780807867068


Great Dismal Swamp

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.

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