A Natural History of Quiet Waters
Swamps and Wetlands of the Mid-Atlantic Coast
$84.01
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
19 August 2025
Summary
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 and evil, and we spent generations draining, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780813953656 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0813953650 |
| Author: | Curtis J. Badger |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press |
| Imprint: | University of Virginia Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 19 August 2025 |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
“Curtis Badger is one of the Delmarva, Peninsula’s authentic voices, local as dirt, but also possessing an ecologist’s sensibility. With paddle, pen, and rod, he explores and gives voice to the under-appreciated wet places of the mid-Atlantic. Whether writing about the hidden lives of dragonflies or the global migrations of birds, he weaves the local and the farflung into a web of life. Badger shows us, eloquently, how ‘swamps’ are not only places of beauty and mystery, but places for people.” - Tom Horton, author of six books about the Chesapeake Bay region, including Bay Country and Island Out of Time
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