The Book of Swamp and Bog - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Swamp and Bog write by John Andrew Eastman. This book was released on 1995. The Book of Swamp and Bog available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecological approach to natural history provides complete descriptions of 80 common wetland plants.
Big Belching Bog
Big Belching Bog - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Belching Bog write by Phyllis Root. This book was released on 2010-09-03. Big Belching Bog available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cold, wet, and acidic, bogs appear to be extremely hostile to life, yet numerous plants and animals have adapted in fascinating ways in order to survive there. In Big Belching Bog, Phyllis Root lets us in on the secrets of the mysterious bog, describing such special inhabitants as plants that eat insects, bog lemmings, and frogs that stay frozen through the winter and thaw out in the spring. But what's that coming up from the bottom of the bog? The biggest bog secret of all, we learn, is the remarkable process of methane gas belching out of the bog. The gas is created by decaying peat moss and forms a bulge in the surface of the moss six inches or taller before breaking through. Does this "belch" make a sound? No one knows, says Root, because no one has ever heard it. In fact, bogs are known as some of the quietest places on earth. Maybe you will be the first to hear the big bog belch! Illustrated by renowned woodcut artist Betsy Bowen, Big Belching Bog also contains a section of bog facts, including more information about the plants and animals mentioned in the book as well as tips for visiting a bog. Big Belching Bog will stir the imagination of young readers and teach them about the landscape and environment of these mysterious and, ahem, gassy places.
Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination
Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination write by Karin Sanders. This book was released on 2009-12. Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past few centuries, northern Europe’s bogs have yielded mummified men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable account of their modern afterlives, Karin Sanders argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary—and ongoing—cultural journey. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sanders shows, these eerily preserved remains came alive in art and science as material metaphors for such concepts as trauma, nostalgia, and identity. Sigmund Freud, Joseph Beuys, Seamus Heaney, and other major figures have used them to reconsider fundamental philosophical, literary, aesthetic, and scientific concerns. Exploring this intellectual spectrum, Sanders contends that the power of bog bodies to provoke such a wide range of responses is rooted in their unique status as both archeological artifacts and human beings. They emerge as corporeal time capsules that transcend archaeology to challenge our assumptions about what we can know about the past. By restoring them to the roster of cultural phenomena that force us to confront our ethical and aesthetic boundaries, Bodies in the Bog excavates anew the question of what it means to be human.
Bogs of the Northeast
Bogs of the Northeast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bogs of the Northeast write by Charles W. Johnson. This book was released on 2000-09-26. Bogs of the Northeast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first popular book to deal with bogs in a comprehensive yet authoritative manner
Ecology of the Northern Lowland Bogs and Conifer Forests
Ecology of the Northern Lowland Bogs and Conifer Forests - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecology of the Northern Lowland Bogs and Conifer Forests write by James A. Larsen. This book was released on 2013-10-22. Ecology of the Northern Lowland Bogs and Conifer Forests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecology of the Northern Lowland Bogs and Conifer Forests is a book on the ecology of bogs and conifer swamps and, to some extent, the marshlands. The chapters that follow are, for the most part, a review of what is known about the northern bogs and lowland forests, written in the terminology of science in the hope, as well as the expectation, that such knowledge will be of value to those who appreciate the beauty of bogs and marshlands, to ecologists and other biological scientists, naturalists, wildlife conservationists, hunters, trappers, construction engineers, as well as to others whose vocations or avocations take them afield. The discussion is devoted, at least primarily, to the ecology of one kind of wetland—the lowland bogs and conifer forests—and treats only in passing the marshlands and other kinds of vegetational communities that are also classified as wetlands. Of particular concern are the lowland peat bogs and forests, especially those that have developed to a point where their identity is indisputable for the simple reason that no other review of accumulated knowledge on these vegetational communities is presently available.
