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Fen, bog & swamp : a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis / Annie Proulx.

Proulx, Annie, (author.).

Summary:
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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982173357
  • ISBN: 1982173351
  • Physical Description: 196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2022.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-196).
Subject: Fens.
Fens > Climatic factors.
Swamps.
Swamps > Climatic factors.
Bogs.
Bogs > Climatic factors.
Peatlands.
Peatlands > Climatic factors.
Wetlands.
Wetlands > Climatic factors.
Peatland restoration.
Wetland restoration.
Climatic changes.

Available copies

  • 21 of 22 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 22 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library 333 PROULX (Text) 50686016229846 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library 333 PROULX (Text) 50686016234267 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 577.68 PRO (Text) 33240004693514 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Annie Halenbake Ross Library 577.68 Pro (Text)
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00155309 ADULT Non-Fiction Available -
Cambria County Library 551.417 P968f (Text) 85131001857748 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults 577.6 PRO Nonfiction (Text) 34001001423977 Adult Area Available -
FD Campbell Memorial Library 333 PRO (Text) 32002000386126 FDCM Non-Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 333 Proulx Nature (Text) 39427103676243 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Checked Out 04/03/2024
Kreutz Creek Valley Library Adults 577.68 PRO Nonfiction (Text) 34261000619781 Adult Area Available -
Littlestown Library 333 PROULX (Text)
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35740635883366 Nonfiction Available -


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