The Great Dismal: A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1990 - History - 193 pages
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 trie

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Drummonds Pond
1
Juniper
22
Washingtons Entry
40
Lost in the Desert
61
At Large in the Swamp
84
Canalbank Life
102
Songbird Swamp
137
The Great Dismal
156
Epilogue
171
Selected Swamp Sources
179
Illustration Credits
183
Index
187
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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.

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