The Great Dismal: A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir
by Simpson, Bland
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book VG+: toning/offset to endpapers, else clean, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: spine sunned, else clean, unclipped.
- ISBN 10
- 0807818739
- ISBN 13
- 9780807818732
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: toning/offset to endpapers, else clean, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: spine sunned, else clean, unclipped.. 8vo 185pp. from front flap: "Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, the northernmost of the great southern swamps and 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, no one has succeeded. [. . .] Now, in this memoir, Simpson mixes personal experience, travel narrative, oral history, and natural history to produce an intriguing portrait of the Great Dismal Swamp and its people. The Swamp has been home to the Nansemond Indians, runaway slaves, lumbermen who removed thousands of majestic cypress and juniper trees, moonshiners, and hunters. Their stories are told here." #01993.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1931
- Title
- The Great Dismal
- Author
- Simpson, Bland
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG+: toning/offset to endpapers, else clean, tight, unmarked
- Jacket Condition
- DJ VG: spine sunned, else clean, unclipped.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0807818739
- ISBN 13
- 9780807818732
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- memoir, carolina, swamp, natural history, history, nonfiction, first edition
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