*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* *A 2022 NBCC Awards Nonfiction Finalist and a 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Awa

From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx--whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth--comes a riveting, revelatory history of our

In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into an Arctic wetland where

Ecological approach to natural history provides complete descriptions of 80 common wetland plants.

Coverage includes Finnish mire types and their distribution, mires of Sweden, mire ecosystems in the Soviet Union, and wetlands in Canada, their classification,