David Carroll & Snapping Turtles

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.

In this memoir, artist and naturalist Carroll (best-known for his books Year of the Turtle and Swampwalker's Journal ) tells the story of his life, revealing the reasons for his fascination with turtles and their swampland environs and reflecting on the paths it has taken him. He also explores his love of art, including many examples from his own sketchbook along the way.