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Among the swamp people : life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta / Watt Key ; illustrations by Kelan Mercer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Key, Watt, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country life--Alabama--Mobile-Tensaw Delta.
- Country life.
- Country life--Alabama--Baldwin County.
- Swamps--Alabama--Baldwin County.
- Swamps.
- Camps--Alabama--Baldwin County.
- Camps.
- Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.)--Social life and customs.
- Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.).
- Baldwin County (Ala.)--Social life and customs.
- Baldwin County (Ala.).
- Mobile-Tensaw Delta (Ala.)--Biography.
- Baldwin County (Ala.)--Biography.
- Key, Watt.
- Key, Watt--Homes and haunts--Alabama--Baldwin County.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Among the Swamp People 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
- Contents:
- Discovery : spring 1996
- First night
- Camp man
- Crazy Dan
- City people
- Cloverleaf
- Swamp writer
- Hurricane Georges
- Man tools
- Water hunter
- Swamp camp
- The white car
- Carson
- Homesick
- Risks and changes
- Butch
- The trailer park
- Man talk
- Catching alligators
- Kitchen music
- Football
- Late-night visitors
- Chuckfee Revival
- Neighbors
- Deltona 500
- Boats on the loose
- The slough
- The boat slip
- Mayhall
- Delta heckler
- Camp names
- Red
- Horace
- Bottle Creek
- No-name
- Random proud
- Best friends
- Big generator
- The dark ages
- Airboat
- The phone call
- Back to the mud
- The deal
- More hurricanes
- Stepping out
- Famous
- Christmas gift
- End of an era.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8890-7
- OCLC:
- 916450892
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