The foreword and introduction from Edward Struzik's book, Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat
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"Struzik writes with immediacy and a sense of awe, bewitching readers with the unexpected beauty of peatlands."
--Booklist
"Expect to encounter the unexpected in this science- and story-rich book. Most unexpected will be your new fascination with bogs, fens, moors, and marshes—those folklorically dark, pestilential environments. Edward Struzik and a procession of eccentric-yet-wise characters turn old, deprecating notions on their head and reveal fabled wastelands to be vital wonderlands."
--Jack E. Davis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea and The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird'