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‘Recasts bogs as the magical wonderlands that they secretly are’ ED YONG

‘Rare and exciting .. Turetsky asks readers to help her support and rescue the world’s endangered boglands. If you enjoy breathing, you should answer the call’ ANNIE PROULX

Step into the unearthly world of bogs.

Sink beneath the surface. In this sumptuous, fecund place, what wonders await you?

This is a world with an ecology like no other, where amphibian-eating plants and acid-flinging mosses grow rampant. A realm of peat, laid down layer upon layer, preserving millennia of Earth’s history. A dark, vertical landscape where the sheer abundance of carbon precariously locked away holds our very future in balance.

Above all, bogs are places of paradox, where past meets present in the remarkably preserved artefacts and bodies entombed in their depths, land meets water in an otherworldly landscape, and safety meets danger for those who dare to venture into the heart of the bog. With renowned bog ecologist Merritt Turetsky as your guide, Boglands is an invitation to enter a beguiling landscape that will irrevocably change the way you see the natural world.

Publisher Review

Merritt Turetsky is so enraptured by bogs, so full of wide-eyed passion for them, and so skilled at recasting them as the magical wonderlands that they secretly are, that you cannot help but be swept away — Ed Yong, author of AN IMMENSE WORLD and I CONTAIN MULTITUDES Boglands is one of those rare and exciting books that can change bad situations. A rich and loving appreciation of the world-wide kingdom of sphagnum bogs. Turetsky asks readers to help her support and rescue the world’s endangered boglands. If you enjoy breathing, you should answer the call — Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of FEN, BOG AND SWAMP A beautiful ode to one of Earth’s most overlooked environments, Merritt Turetsky reveals the rich histories and ecological wonders buried in bogs around the world — Laura Poppick, author of STRATA Writing with a love and intimacy born from decades of immersion in these undervalued landscapes, Merritt Turetsky takes readers deep into boglands to witness the surprising beauty of peat: its mystery, its plants and animals, its crucial role in the future of Earth’s climate — Anna Chilvers, co-editor of THE BOOK OF BOGS