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Great Lakes at Ten Miles an Hour.

The Great Lakes are a remarkable repository of millions of years of complex geological transformations and of a considerably shorter, crowded span of human history. Over the course of four summers, Thomas Shevory rode a bicycle along their shores, taking in the stories the lakes tell--of nature'...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shevory, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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