Fens,bogs,swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources. Here,Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment,and their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit.
Travelling from the fens of sixteenth-century England to America's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge,Fen,Bog and Swamp is both a revelatory history and an urgent plea for wetland reclamation,from one of our greatest prose stylists.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780008534431Number of pages: 208Weight: 190 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
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'Proulx wants us to see the loss of wetlands - and to appreciate the beauty in these swampy and often stinking places. Boy,does she succeed. The prose is just magnificent,bringing to life hitherto overlooked habitats.'- The Guardian
'Proulx's book is truly peat-ish: layered,learned,feisty,wildly discursive,and most certainly "undulating,dreaming (and) philosophising."'- Richard Mabey,The Telegraph
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