Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and here Proulx documents the emergence of their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit. Both a revelatory history and an urgent plea for wetland reclamation, Proulx 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. From Pulitzer Prize Winner Annie Proulx!