Fen, Bog and Swamp
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
<p> / by Annie Proulx. - London : 4th Estate (Harper Collins), 1922. - 196 p. ; 20 cm<br>Includes notes<br><br></p>
ISBN: 9780008534431
Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are some of the earth’s most desirable and dependable resources. 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. The result is an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet.
