Great Dismal: A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir

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.

Author: Bland Simpson
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/28/1998
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.45h x 5.46w x 0.54d
ISBN13: 9780807847527
ISBN10: 0807847526
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Essays
- Biography & Autobiography | General
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,

About the Author
Bland Simpson, who teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is author of "Into the Sound Country" (with photography by Ann Cary Simpson) and "The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey." A member of the Red Clay Ramblers, an internationally acclaimed string band, he has collaborated on such musicals as "Kudzu," "King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running," "Diamond Studs," and "Fool Moon."