Stirring the Mud

Stirring the Mud
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 0618215123
ISBN-13 : 9780618215126
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Book Synopsis Stirring the Mud by : Barbara Hurd

Download or read book Stirring the Mud written by Barbara Hurd and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In her observations of these muddy environments, she finds ample metaphor for human creativity, 9imagination, and fear.


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