Gone to the Swamp
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A01=Robert Leslie Smith
Author_Robert Leslie Smith
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Product details
- ISBN 9780817354947
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 161 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 21 Sep 2008
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the hinterland behind the port of Mobile lies the vast swampy convergence of the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers, a delta rich in fish, game animals, hard and softwood resources, and the beauty and solitude of the wild - but also rich in varmints big and little, including some human ones, and the manifold dangers of a world where land, sky, and water seem to blend together and one can become lost 100 paces in any direction, if not drowned or devoured first.To make a living here, one had to be capable, confident, clever and inventive, know a lot about survival, be able to fashion and repair tools, navigate a boat, fell a tree, treat a snakebite, make a meal from whatever was handy without asking too many questions about it, and get along with folks.This fascinating and instructive book is the careful and unpretentious account of a man who was artful in all the skills needed to survive and raise a family in an area where most people would be lost or helpless. Smith's story is an important record of a way of life beginning to disappear, a loss not fully yet realized. We are lucky to have a work that is both instructive and warm-hearted and that preserves so much hard-won knowledge.
Robert Leslie Smith was a logger, hunter, fisherman, entrepreneur, and all around good citizen of the swamp at the head of Mobile Bay, where the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers join, but he was particularly notable for his success in developing a forestry-products business and his innovative use of waterways in the Delta to bring logs and other products to market.
