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Peat and Peat Cutting
For thousands of years peat was the main fuel that that warmed houses all over the British Isles, and the mark of the peat cutter is written deep in the landscape. This book is a celebration of a cultural history that extended from the Iron Age to the twentieth century. It tells the story of the use of peat for fuel in the British Isles, and the people who cut it. It also examines the methods of cutting, the tools that were used, and the organization of cutting. It chronicles the beginning of commercial extraction and the exhaustion of this precious resource.
A Focus on Peatlands and Peat Mosses
Examines the fens and bogs of the upper Midwest, with a taxonomic treatment of peat mosses
Peatlands
Geochemical, biogeochemicals and ecosystems. Templastes of peat formation. The geochemical template. Mires-peat producing ecosystems. Adaptation in mire organisms. Peat stratigraphy - a record of succession. The microscopic components of peat. The world picture. The world's resource.
