The Dark Stuff
Stories from the Peatlands
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Wildlife
- Date of Publication 1 August 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781399426312
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 216x135 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
An evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths.
MoreLong description:
'A heartwarming spectacle of desolation.' THE SPECTATOR
'Deeply enjoyable ... a celebration of both the ordinary and the extraordinary.' THE SCOTSMAN
An evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths.
Donald S. Murray spent much of his childhood either playing or working on the moor, chasing sheep across empty acres and cutting and gathering peat for fuel.
The Dark Stuff is an examination of how this landscape affected him and others. Donald explores his early life on the Isle of Lewis together with the experiences of those who lived near moors much further afield, from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland to the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and even Australia. Examining this environment in all its roles and guises, Donald reflects on the ways that for centuries humans have represented the moor in literature, art and folktale, and he reveals how in some countries, these habitats remain an essential aspect of their industrial heritage and working life today.
On his journey, Donald confronts the unexpected - how Europe's peatlands are part of the dark heart of that continent, playing a crucial role in the history of crime and punishment in several countries. He also examines our current perception of moorland, asking how - for the sake, perhaps, of our planet's survival - we can learn to love a landscape we have all too often in our history denigrated, feared and despised.
Table of Contents:
PART 1: Ru`sgadh - Turfing
Chapter 1: Fraoch (Scottish Gaelic) - Heather
Chapter 2: Lyng (Danish) - Heather
Chapter 3: Heide (Dutch) - Heather
PART 2: Mo`ine Bha`n - White Peat
Chapter 4: Vaalea Rahkasammalturve (Finnish) - White Peat
Chapter 5: Grauveen (Dutch) - Grey Turf
Chapter 6: Skyumpik (Shetland) - Mossy Peat
Chapter 7: Svo¨r?ur (eastern Iceland) - Turf, Peat
PART 3: Fa`d a' Gha`rraidh - The Wall Peat
Chapter 8: Mo´ini´n Pollach (Irish) - Small Pitted Bogs
Chapter 9: Bluster (Shetland) - Rough Peat
PART 4: Mo`ine Dhubh - Caoran - Black Peat
Chapter 10: Blue Clod (Shetland) - Dark Peat
Chapter 11: Musta Turve (Finnish) - Black Peat
Chapter 12: Schwarztorf (German) - Black Peat
PART 5: Rathad an Isein - The Birds' Path
Chapter 13: Su`il-chruthaich (Scottish Gaelic) - Quagmire or Bog, literally 'the eye of creation'
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