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Title

The living Great Lakes : searching for the heart of the inland seas / Jerry Dennis.

Author

Dennis, Jerry.

Publication

New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2003.

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Description

viii, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

• "If fresh water is a treasure, the Great Lakes are the mother lode. No bodies of water can compare to them. Superior is the largest lake on earth, and the five lakes together contain a fifth of the world's supply of standing fresh water.
• Their ten thousand miles of shoreline bound seven states and a Canadian province and are longer than the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States; their surface area is greater than New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New hampshire, and Rhode Island combined. People who have never visited them - who have never seen a squall roar across Superior or the horizon stretching unbroken across Michigan or Huron - have no idea how big they are. They are so vast that they dominate much of the geography, climate, and history of North America.
• In one way or another, they affect the lives of tens of millions of people." "The Living Great Lakes is a complete book written about the history, nature, and science of these remarkable lakes at the heart of North America. From the geological forces that formed them, to the industrial atrocities that nearly destroyed them, to the greatest environmental success stories of our time, the lakes are portrayed in all their complexity."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Dennis, Jerry > Travel > Great Lakes Region (North America)
• Dennis, Jerry > Voyages > Grands Lacs, Région des
• Natural history > Great Lakes (North America)
• Sciences naturelles > Grands Lacs, Région des
• Great Lakes (North America) > History
• Great Lakes (North America) > Environmental conditions
• Grands Lacs > Histoire
• Grands Lacs > Environnement

Note

• Map on lining papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-286) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Lake Michigan -- Ch. 2. Lake Michigan -- Ch. 3. Lake Michigan -- Ch. 4. Lake Michigan -- Ch. 5. The Straits of Mackinac -- Ch. 6. Lake Superior -- Ch. 7. Lake Superior -- Ch. 8. Lake Huron -- Ch. 9. St. Clair River/Detroit River -- Ch. 10. Detroit River/Lake Erie -- Ch. 11. Lake Erie -- Ch. 12. Lake Michigan -- Ch. 13. Lake Ontario -- Ch. 14. Erie Canal/Hudson River -- Ch. 15. The Atlantic -- Ch. 16. Lake Michigan.

ISBN

0312251939

LCCN

2002032500

OCLC

• ocm50684561
• SCSB-4349576

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries