Book of Swamp & Bog, The: Trees, Shrubs, and Wildflowers of Eastern Freshwater Wetlands
by Vereen Bell
Category: Fiction

Swamp Water, the first novel by a young native of south Georgia, was an immediate critical and financial success. The setting is the mysterious Okefenokee in southern Georgia--"the Swamp that pulled a man down and never let him go." Movie versions were made in 1941 (by Jean Renoir) and in 1951.