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Description
'Bracingly original' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian
'A mixture of travelogue, local history and reportage, Swamp Songs brims with evocative word sketches' Times Literary Supplement
From Romney Marsh to the Danube Delta, from Cyprus to the bayous of Louisiana and on to the Bay of Bengal, Tom Blass crosses swamps, marshes and wetlands to meet the people who have made these in-between worlds their homes.
Here are true stories and myths of smugglers and runaway slaves, of fishermen, shepherds and salt-gatherers – and of tiger gods, flamingos and floods. A dazzling exploration of the precarious lives led where land and water tussle, Swamp Songs is a vital reappraisal and vibrant celebration of people and environments closely intertwined.
Product details
Published | 21 Jul 2022 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 336 |
ISBN | 9781526652492 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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PRAISE FOR SWAMP SONGS: Enriching and magical, Tom Blass's writing is a pleasure to read.
Donald S. Murray
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What a joy to roam with Tom Blass through some of nature's most unjustly maligned and underappreciated habitats, where webs of life interconnect wildly and wondrously with human stories. Swamp Songs is a delicious blend of ecology and culture.
Amy-Jane Beer
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PRAISE FOR THE NAKED SHORE: Tom Blass's The Naked Shore is a wonderfully bracing journey around the North Sea. His gaze misses nothing, and his robust prose glitters with story and lore and surprise
Philip Marsden
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A hugely enjoyable anti-tour, and a wonderful eulogy to an implacable ocean
Times Literary Supplement
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Tom Blass champions a subtlety of vision, a determination to discern the marvellous in the unprepossessing
Daily Telegraph
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Remarkable ... I was relieved to find that his work is not of the trendy Thoreau-esque school of travel writing, but more down to earth ... Terrifically enjoyable
Literary Review