Fen, Bog and Swamp : A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis
Proulx, Annie
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ’A subject that could not be
more important. A compact classic!’ Bill McKibben ’I learned
something new - and found something amazing - on every page’ Anthony
Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See From
Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her
knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes an urgent and riveting
history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them
threatens the planet. Fens, bogs, swamps and
marine estuaries are the earth’s most desirable and dependable
resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence
of their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit and the
consequent release of their stored carbon.
Wide-ranging and
idiosyncratic, Proulx’s 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 and introduces the nineteenth-century explorers who launched the
ravaging of the Amazon rainforest. 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.
’Magnificent, bringing to life hitherto overlooked habitats’ Guardian
’Proulx’s sparkling book will open your
eyes to humanity’s reckless trashing of wetlands’ Telegraph
’A haunting tribute ...
Proulx’s poetic description of these places, and peat itself, is a pleasure to read’ Financial Time
Kustantaja: UKBooks
Sidosasu:
ean: 9780008534394
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