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Book SynopsisContains nine essays which explores the allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Detailing the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men, this work establishes a separate ground for thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing.
Trade ReviewHurd is a consummate naturalist, writing with the grace and precision of a Peter Matthiessen or an Annie Dillard. - Los Angeles Times ""Delving into these wetlands, [Hurd] finds in their array of strange fauna and flora an objective correlative to the place in the mind where artistic inspiration occurs: a place of blurred borders, shifting identity, and strange odors, of rot and death, of Zen peacefulness."" - New Yorker ""Hurd's poetic inquiry into the life and margins of marshy terrain takes us on a magic-filled metaphorical mystery tour of human desire."" - Utne
