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'Fen, Bog & Swamp' Explains the History of the Wetlands | Book of the Day

Pulitzer Prize winning-author Annie Proulx tells Leila Fadel that she learns by writing.

So when she wanted to better understand the wetlands – and how they're being affected by the climate crisis – she dove into nonfiction. Her new book, Fen, Bog & Swamp, does not concern itself with how the natural world serves humans, but rather how it serves itself.

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