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America's Wetland: An Environmental and Cultural History of Tidewater Virginia and North Carolina
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About America's Wetland: An Environmental And Cultural
Product Description In so doing, he explores the effects of hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, and ice ages of the past--and anticipates, in this age of global warming, natural events that may be still to come. Review The environmental and cultural fortunes of the tidewater regions of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina are inextricably linked by the adjacencies of each state's importantwetlands...there's an intriguing back-story attached to almost every square mile of the tidewater involving alligators, hurricanes, civil war blockades, underground railroads, peat fires, earthquakes, dams, dugouts, shipwrecked hogs, and importantly, the environmental imprinthumans have left over thousands of years...If you've fished for crappie in LakeDrummond, explored the natural riches of Back Bay and the Great Dismal Swamp,hunted waterfowl, or dangled a chicken neck off a backyard pier to net a blue crab,you'll find your next adventure enriched by Sawyer's wide-ranging regional his-tory of one of our nation's most precious ecosystems. (Beth Hester Virginia Wildlife) About the Author Roy T. Sawyer is retired Managing Director of BIOPHARM (UK) Ltd., a leech research institute in Wales. He is also founder and curator of the Medical Leech Museum, a private facility in Charleston, South Carolina, and the author of Leech Biology and Behaviour.
