Fen, Bog and Swamp

Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, but are being systemically destroyed in the pursuit of profit and are consequently releasing their stored carbon. Wide-ranging and idiosyncratic, this explanation of wetlands takes readers to the fens of sixteenth-century England, Canada's Hudson Bay Lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire and America's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge as well as introducing the nineteenth-century explorers who launched the ravaging of the Amazon rainforest.

Pulitzer prize winner Annie Proulx was born in the 1930s, a time, as she says, when 'in the ever-continuing name of progress, Western countries busily raped their own and other countries of minerals, timber, fish and wildlife.' Fen, Bog & Swamp is both a revelatory history and an urgent plea for wetland reclamation from a writer whose passionate devotion to observing and preserving the environment is on glorious display.

Hardback, 176 pages.
Measures 14.4 x 22.3 cm.