FEN, BOG & SWAMP, by Annie Proulx (Fourth Estate, $32.99)
Wetlands have been vilified for centuries, slighted with names like the Great Dismal Swamp. But as we come to appreciate their enormous capacity to filter pollution, store carbon and buffer coastlines from an encroaching ocean, they are gaining admirers.
Annie Proulx is one of them, and has been for some time. The Pulitzer-decorated novelist, and , has already published an ode to wetlands in her 2011 memoir , the story of a house she built amid the wilderness of Wyoming’s swamps and prairie near the North Platte river.
