To view prices and purchase online, please login or create an account now.



Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis [Audiobook]

Audio CD

Main Details

Title Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis [Audiobook]
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Annie Proulx
Physical Properties
Format:Audio CD
Category/GenreAudiobooks on CD
Non-Fiction
Trade Publishers Audiobooks
All Dates
Non-Fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9781797141787
Audience
General
Edition Audiobook

Publishing Details

Publisher Trade Publishers Audiobooks
Imprint Simon & Schuster Audio
NZ Release Date 27 September 2022
Publication Country United States

Description

From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx--whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth--comes a riveting, revelatory history of our wetlands, their ecological role, and what their systematic destruction means for the planet.A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment--by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are the earths most desirable and dependable resources, and in four stunning parts, Proulx documents the long-misunderstood role of these wetlands in saving the planet. Taking us on a fascinating journey through history, Proulx shows us the fens of 16th-century England to Canadas Hudson Bay lowlands, Russias Great Vasyugan Mire, Americas Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, and the 19th-century explorers who began the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Along the way, she writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands--the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever--and the surprisingly significant role of peat in industrialization. A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences, this is a stunningly important work and a rousing call to action by a writer whose passionate devotion to understanding and preserving the environment is on full and glorious display.