Duck Hunting in Quicksand

A colored guide at a hunting club in north Mississippi in the 1930s, prescient, expert in the ways of the woods though barely literate, Arthur Campbell enters the employ of a prominent Memphis family until the 1960s, profoundly impacting their lives even across the Pacific, becoming a second father to the narrator (in the absence of his own father) through the War years and after... For generations, from the debutante ball to the duck blind, stepping "out of your tux and into your waders" has been part of High Society for young people of privilege in the Mississippi Delta.Duck Hunting in Quicksand is a marvelous tale of heroism and humility, from the melting pot of Delta blues on Beale Street, to the Pacific theater of WWII. Ensign Charles Deane Smith, MIA after his ship, the USS HOUSTON, is sunk by the Japanese, leads many men through the ordeal, foretold by humble paddler Arthur Campbell, who like The Admirable Crichton, rises to the lead the family back home in Memphis...