Download or read book Swamp Water written by Vereen Bell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swamp Water, the first novel by a young native of south Georgia, was an immediate critical and financial success. The setting is the mysterious Okefenokee in southern Georgia--"the Swamp that pulled a man down and never let him go." Movie versions were made in 1941 (by Jean Renoir) and in 1951.