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See moreA world-leading ecologist's grand tour of the strangest and least understood of all Earth's landscapes
A world-leading ecologist's grand tour of the strangest and least understood of all Earth's landscapes
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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781805221401
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 17 September 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Edition: Main
Illustration: 8pp section
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 142.0mm
Height: 218.0mm
Weight: 360g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Dr Merritt Turetsky is an internationally renowned ecologist, a founding member of the international Permafrost Carbon Network and an advisor to NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment. She has published hundreds of scientific articles and provides counsel to governments, research boards and professional networks globally to better understand the importance of bogs to the global climate. In addition to her research publications, Turetsky serves as the science advisor to EOS and regularly appears on CNN, PBS Newshour and the BBC.
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