{"product_id":"among-the-swamp-people-life-in-alabamas-mobile-tensaw-river-delta-paperback-softback-9780817359324","title":"Among the Swamp People; Life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817359324","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAmong the Swamp People\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLife in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWatt Key (Author), Kelan Mercer (Illustrated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817359324\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 April 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages, 21 black \u0026amp; white figures\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.293 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe pleasure and dangers of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta are seen through the eyes of a Mobile, Ala., native in this sentimental account that spans a decade. . . . The book works well as both a travelogue and a portrait of humans struggling with and living alongside nature.\"\" - \u003ci\u003ePublisher’s Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAmong the Swamp People \u003c\/i\u003eis laugh-out-loud funny and filled with vivid characters, salty dialogue, and poignant moments by a writer of great insight and skill.\"\" - John S. Sledge, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mobile River\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"\u003ci\u003eAmong the Swamp People\u003c\/i\u003e takes the form of one tall tale after another, made believable by the fact that you’d be hard-pressed to make them up. Key gives us a readable, engaging, slice-of-life insight into a world that most of us hardly know at all.\"\" - Frye Gaillard, author of \u003ci\u003eCradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eIn the Path of the Storms: Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmong the Swamp People\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of author Watt Key’s discovery of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. “The swamp” consists of almost 260,000 acres of wetlands located just north of Mobile Bay. There he leases a habitable outcropping of land and constructs a primitive cabin from driftwood to serve as a private getaway. His story is one that chronicles the beauties of the delta’s unparalleled natural wonders, the difficulties of survival within it, and an extraordinary community of characters—by turns generous and violent, gracious and paranoid, hilarious and reckless—who live, thrive, and perish there.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThere is no way into the delta except by small boat. To most it would appear a maze of rivers and creeks between stunted swamp trees and mud. Key observes that there are few places where one can step out of a boat without “sinking to the knees in muck the consistency of axle grease. It is the only place I know where gloom and beauty can coexist at such extremes. And it never occurred to me that a land seemingly so bleak could hide such beauty and adventure.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eIt also chronicles Key’s maturation as a writer, from a twenty-five-year-old computer programmer with no formal training as a writer to a highly successful, award-winning writer of fiction for a young adult audience with three acclaimed novels published to date.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eIn learning to make a place for himself in the wild, as in learning to write, Key’s story is one of “hoping someone—even if just myself—would find value in my creations.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574398251288,"sku":"9780817359324","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/among-the-swamp-people-life-in-alabamas-mobile-tensaw-river-delta-paperback-softback-9780817359324","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}