A Natural History of Quiet Waters: Swamps and Wetlands of the Mid-Atlantic Coast

by Curtis J. Badger

Although swamps today are recognized as one of the richest and most prolific natural systems on Earth, they have long held a mysterious and tenuous place in America's history and culture. Ernest Hemingway equated them with madness and death in "Big Two-hearted River." We have images of Humphrey Bogart covered with leeches while slogging through a swamp in the film The African Queen. In our culture, swamps have been associated with mystery...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813926181
• ISBN13: 9780813926186
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher