Fen, Bog and Swamp by Annie Proulx

Fen, Bog and Swamp by Annie ProulxA BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!' Bill McKibben 'I learned something new and found something amazing on every page' Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See 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

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