Rod Giblett is associate professor in the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia.

'Giblett’s analysis is invaluable to the conservation efforts of wetlanders in Canada and abroad.'

• Chapter 1: Canadian wetlands culture: Past and presentChapter 2: Wetlands in anglophone pioneer settler literature and nature writing of the Canadian canon Chapter 3: ‘In the Acadian land’ of Evangeline: The marshlands of Grand Pré, the wetlands of the Bay of Fundy and Longfellow’s literary legacy Chapter 4: ‘The marsh lies rich and wanton’: The Tantramar Marshes, Charles G. D. Roberts and Douglas Lochhead Chapter 5: ‘Noisome marsh’ and ‘incurable marshes’: Wainfleet Bog, Point Pelee Marshes and the falls on the Niagara Peninsula Chapter 6: ‘A swampy flat’: Vancouver and the wetlands of the Fraser River delta Chapter 7: A city ‘set in malarial lakeside swamps’: Toronto and Ashbridge’s Bay Marsh Chapter 8: ‘Land and water disputed empire’: Holland Marsh, John Muir and Henry David Thoreau Chapter 9: ‘Quaking morass’: The marshes of Manitoba, Frederick Philip Grove and Aldo Leopold Chapter 10: ‘Smelling the Old Marsh, I knew I was home’: Harry Thurston’s marshes of Nova Scotia and the future of Canadian wetlands culture