Peatlands – bogs, fens and heaths – are part of the Irish soul. Neither water nor land and yet both, they were once considered gateways to the otherworld. Bleak and beautiful, they are time capsules that hold a record of history going back thousands of years. They supported Irish life for generations, providing fuel and employment, and are home to flora and fauna found nowhere else.Carsten Krieger, the author and photographer behind Wild Ireland, Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way and many other titles, celebrates the magic and mystery of our peatlands. He looks at the origin of these habitats, the often dark traditions associated with the Irish peatlands, and how we can maintain the delicate balance between man and nature into the future.
Carsten Krieger celebrates the magic and mystery of our peatlands. They are full of contradictions: bleak and beautiful, wet and dry, living and dead. They are time capsules, holding a record of Irish history going back thousands of years. And they hold the key to our ecological future – or, if disturbed, its further demise.
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Writer-photographer Carsten Krieger weds the factual and magical in Ten Thousand Years Deep: The Story of Irelands Peatlands. Kriegers stills close-up tapestries of moss and heather, inky bog pools, dew droplets on cobwebs conjure a sublime celebration. These are woven through detailed ecology, cultural analysis, and a cautionary future projection. For so long merely a byword for backwardness, redundancy, and even social inferiority, it is heartening to see these uniquely beautiful and irreplaceable ecosystems being championed, and in exquisite style too -- Sunday Independent A sumptuous photographic journey through Irelands peatlands, exploring the landscapes, history and abundant beauty -- Clare Herald a beautiful book, I read every word ... just look at those pictures -- RTE Radio 1s Mooney Goes Wild
Introduction
Chapter One: Into the Peatlands
Chapter Two: From Fen to Raised Bogs
Chapter Three: Blanket Bog, Heath and Marsh
Chapter Four: Flora & Fauna
Chapter Five: Of Bogs, Men and the Future
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Index
CARSTEN KRIEGER is a photographer, author and environmentalist based on the west coast of Ireland. He has published numerous books on Irelands landscape, nature and heritage including Irelands Coast, The River Shannon, the popular Irelands Wild Atlantic Way and Irelands Wild Beauty: A Book of Days. His book Wild Ireland: A Nature Journey from Shore to Peak was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards 2023. His most recent book is Ten Thousand Years Deep: The Story of Irelands Peatlands.
Carsten, a former An Taisce Climate Ambassador, is currently a Green Sod Ireland Biodiversity Ambassador, and is also working with Banner Books, an independent bookshop in County Clare, on a series of regional natural history books.
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