Among the Swamp People: Life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw Delta

Thousands of American lotuses carpet the water's surface, faces turned toward the morning sun. Bright yellow warblers flit among cypress trees along a creek bank. A paddlefish jumps as a motorboat rounds a bend. The Mobile-Tensaw Delta — a lush, vibrant and surprisingly intact over 400-square-mile expanse of cypress swamps, oxbow lakes, marshland, hardwood stands and rivers — is teeming with more aquatic species than almost anywhere in North America.

“Among the Swamp People : Life in Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta”Author: Watt Key; Illustrations by Kelan MercerPublisher: University of Alabama…