A really fascinating book. It talks a lot more about humanity's relationship with wetlands historically, anthropologically, and spiritually than I was expecting. I was expecting just straight science. And there is definitely science! But I was enthralled by the weaving together of the science with the modern relationship with the historical relationship. I was expecting bog mummies to be a mere paragraph, but when there was a whole chapter about bog mummies and a whole section about Doggerland???? I could have wept.

A sobering read, but also important. Also, it lead to me having a dream of eating dinner with my father, and my father alternately taking bites of his romaine lettuce salad and shoving leaves into his eye socket to "cure" some infection in it. This dream was brought to you by the powers of sphagnum moss!