Your Common House Bat's Reviews > Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

This book was absolutely fantastic. Hurd has an amazing way with words, so evocative and breathtaking. In her writing you can feel the mud between your toes and smell the bog. I picked up this book because I'm writing a story set in a swamp and this book was amazing help with that; I learned about what plants and animals that are to be found in swamps. I love how Hurd takes a very underappreciated type of habitat/landscape and romanticized it. I love her sense of adventure and connection to the land.