"Among the Swamp People" is the story of author Watt Key s discovery of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. The swamp consists of almost 260,000 acres of wetlands located just north of Mobile Bay. There he leases a habitable outcropping of land and constructs a primitive cabin from driftwood to serve as a private getaway. His story is one that chronicles the beauties of the delta s unparalleled natural wonders, the difficulties of survival within it, and an extraordinary community of characters by turns generous and violent, gracious and paranoid, hilarious and reckless who live, thrive, and...

A collection of colorful and lively personal essays about life in the wilds of Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, Among the Swamp People chronicles the beauties of the delta's unparalleled natural wonders, the difficulties of survival within it, and an extraordinary community of characters.