Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

A remarkable meditative foray into the strange and seductive beauty of swamps and bogs.

"Barbara Hurd writes about people with the canny poise of Cheever, and about nature with the loving exactitude of Thoreau. And everywhere in her work is a speculative energy and elegance that make her essays a rare achievement." -J. D. McClatchy, author of The Rest of the Way