Gone to the Swamp: Raw Materials for the Good Life in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta

By Robert Leslie Smith

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817354948
• ISBN13: 9780817354947
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Fire Ant Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"