Living waters : reading the rivers of the lower Great Lakes /

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"In Living Waters, Margaret Wooster canoes, portages, camps beside, and wades into eight Great Lakes watersheds across New York and Quebec, returning with her pockets full of original stories from these beautiful, boggy, and prehistoric waterways. From the history of hydropower development on t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wooster, Margaret
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Water-supply > Great Lakes Region (North America)
Ecology > Great Lakes Region (North America)
Eau > Approvisionnement > Grands Lacs, Région des (Amérique du Nord)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Ecology
Travel
Water-supply
Great Lakes Region (North America) > Environmental conditions.
Great Lakes Region (North America) > Description and travel.
Grands Lacs, Région des (Amérique du Nord) > Conditions environnementales.
Grands Lacs, Région des (Amérique du Nord) > Descriptions et voyages.
Great Lakes Region
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • I: The Niagara Frontier
  • What is Niagara? Interlude: harmonic convergence, Niagara Falls
  • Scajaquada: portrait of an urban creek
  • Buffalo River abandoned
  • Interlude: the power of water
  • II: Beginnings
  • Genesee torture tree: rereading little beard's signs
  • Zoar Valley genesis
  • Interlude: killdeer and other mysteries
  • III: The eastern door
  • High peaks, cloud lakes
  • Oswego, Onondaga, and the politics of listing
  • Le Fleuve
  • Interlude: second voyage
  • Leopold revisited.

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