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Proulx Annie - Fen Bog And Swamp A Short History Of Peatland Destruction And Its Role In The Climate Crisis - Hardcover
Proulx Annie - Fen Bog And Swamp A Short History Of Peatland Destruction And Its Role In The Climate Crisis - Hardcover
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Description: * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction the 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award and the NEIB a 2023 New England Book Award* From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx this riveting deep dive into the history of our wetlands and what their systematic destruction means for the planet is both an enchanting work of nature writing and a rousing call to action (Esquire). I learned something new and found something amazing on every page. Anthony Doerr author of All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land A lifelong acolyte of the natural world Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change. Fens bogs swamps and marine estuaries are crucial to the earth's survival and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents their systemic destruction in pursuit of profit. In a vivid and revelatory journey through history Proulx describes the fens of 16th - century England Canada's Hudson Bay lowlands Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire and America's Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. She introduces the early explorers who launched the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands the Ague malaria Marsh Fever. A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences this is an unforgettable and unflinching tour of past and present fixed on a subject that could not be more important (Bill Mc Kibben). A stark but beautifully written Silent Spring style warning from one of our greatest novelists. The Christian Science Monitor
Title: Fen Bog And Swamp A Short History Of Peatland Destruction And Its Role In The Climate Crisis
Author(s): Proulx Annie
Publisher: Scribner
Barcode: 9781982173357
Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/27/2022
Category: Conservation Of The Environment
Description: * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction the 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award and the NEIB a 2023 New England Book Award* From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx this riveting deep dive into the history of our wetlands and what their systematic destruction means for the planet is both an enchanting work of nature writing and a rousing call to action (Esquire). I learned something new and found something amazing on every page. Anthony Doerr author of All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land A lifelong acolyte of the natural world Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change. Fens bogs swamps and marine estuaries are crucial to the earth's survival and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents their systemic destruction in pursuit of profit. In a vivid and revelatory journey through history Proulx describes the fens of 16th - century England Canada's Hudson Bay lowlands Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire and America's Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. She introduces the early explorers who launched the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands the Ague malaria Marsh Fever. A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences this is an unforgettable and unflinching tour of past and present fixed on a subject that could not be more important (Bill Mc Kibben). A stark but beautifully written Silent Spring style warning from one of our greatest novelists. The Christian Science Monitor
Title: Fen Bog And Swamp A Short History Of Peatland Destruction And Its Role In The Climate Crisis
Author(s): Proulx Annie
Publisher: Scribner
Barcode: 9781982173357
Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/27/2022
Category: Conservation Of The Environment
