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Swamp Songs - Journeys Through Marsh, Meadow and Other Wetlands (Paperback)
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Swamp Songs - Journeys Through Marsh, Meadow and Other Wetlands (Paperback)
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List price R352
Loot Price R265
Discovery Miles 2 650
You Save R87 (25%)
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'Bracingly original' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian From Romney Marsh to
the Danube Delta, North Carolina to the Bay of Bengal, Tom Blass
explores swamps, marshes and wetlands - and the people who have
made these twilit worlds their homes. Oozing with bad airs,
boggarts and other spirits, the world's marshes and swamps are
often seen as sinister, permanently twilit - and only partly of
this earth. For centuries, they - and their inhabitants - have been
the object of our distrust. We have tried to drain away their
demons and tame them, destroying their fragile beauty, botany and
birdlife, along with the carefully calibrated lives of those who
have come to understand and thrive in them. In Swamp Songs, Tom
Blass journeys through a series of such watery landscapes, from
Romney Marsh to North Carolina, from Lapland to the Danube Delta
and on to the Bay of Bengal, encountering those whose very
existence has been shaped by wetlands, their myths and hidden
histories. Here are tales of shepherds, smugglers and
salt-gatherers; of mangroves and machismo, frogs and fishermen. And
of carp soup, tiger gods, flamingos and floods. A dazzling
exploration of lives lived on the fringes of civilisation, Swamp
Songs is a vital reappraisal and vibrant celebration of people and
environments closely intertwined.
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