The Book Prize Index

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

In a vivid and revelatory journey through history, Proulx describes the fens of 16th-century England, Canada's Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire, and America's Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. She introduces the early explorers who launched the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands - the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever. -- Résumé de l'éditeur.

Nature & EnvironmentNature & Environment · high confidenceNature & Environment81 signalsLlm Classifier: Nature & Environment -> Nature & EnvironmentGoogle Books: Nature -> Nature & EnvironmentAward Category: Wainwright Prize: Conservation Writing -> Nature & EnvironmentEnvironment, Conservation & PollutionClimate, Weather & DisasterOceans, Rivers & Water

Award History

0 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionMajor2022FinalistSecondary source
Wainwright Prize: Conservation Writing2023LonglistOfficial source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • England42%
    • Great Vasyugan Mire55%
    • Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge58%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.