Swampwalker's Journal: A Wetlands Year - Softcover

"A genius, a madman, a national treasure" (Annie Dillard) takes readers on a miraculous year-long journey through the wetlands, revealing why they are so important to his life, to ours, to all life on Earth. 50 drawings.

Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Best Natural History Book of the Year

"Magnificent . . .the best kind of book . . .Swampwalker's Journal is an admission ticket to a secret corner of the world."
Bill McKibben

"David Carroll is a genius, madman, a national treasure."
Annie Dillard

"I was captivated by David Carroll's . . .obvious passion and respect for life in all its forms."
Smithsonian

"In my pantheon of nature writers, David Carroll walks on water."
Robert Michael Pyle

David Carroll has dedicated his life to art and to wetlands. He is as passionate about swamps, bogs, and vernal ponds and the creatures who live in them as most of us are about our families and closest friends. He knows frogs and snakes, muskrats and minks, dragonflies, water lilies, cattails, sedges everything that swims, flies, trudges, slithers, or sinks its roots in wet places. In this "intimate and wise book" (Sue Hubbell), Carroll takes us on a lively unforgettable yearlong journey, illustrated with his own elegant drawings, through the wetlands and reveals why they are so important to his life and ours and to all life on Earth.

David M. Carroll is the author of The Year of the Turtle, Trout Reflections, and Self-Portrait with Turtles. A lifelong preservation advocate, Carroll has also received an Environmental Merit Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He and his wife, painter Laurette Carroll, live in Warner, New Hampshire."