But in "Swamp Water" (1941), his first American film, the river is static, clotted, confining.
Most of the higher-ups seem much more comfortable in swamp boots than in suits.
Last year, in "Swamp Things," Burkhard Bilger wrote about the abundance of invasive species in Florida.
In "Swamp Terror" and "Mill Store," both from the early 1940s, the backwoods worlds Capote draws are political in shape.
Much of the oblast's terrain is in swamp of peat bog or reed and grass marsh, with innumerable small lakes.
Over much of the rest of the country, semipermanent hoe cultivation predominates; in swamp and lakeshore areas, it is combined with fishing.
The town is a trade centre in swamp rice, fish, and piassava among the Mende and Sherbro peoples, who now outnumber the Creoles (descendants of the liberated slaves).
In Swamp Thing No. 1, which arrives in stores on Wednesday, a plague of biblical proportions fells birds, bats and fish around the world.
Dr. Kramer practiced periodontics, treating the bone and tissue surrounding the teeth, in Swamp scott and Lynn, Mass., for more than 50 years.
But Zoo can't break free; she's stopped in freedom's tracks by the machismo, ignorance, and brutality the author vividly describes in "Swamp Terror" and "Mill Store": After Zoo runs off, she's forced to return to her former life.
