FEN BOG AND SWAMP: A SHORT HISTORY (HB)

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. Covering topics from the fens of 16th-century England to Canada's Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire to America's Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, and the 19th-century explorers who began the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, this is a rousing call to action.