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Author:
Wooster, Margaret.
Title:
Living waters : reading the rivers of the lower Great Lakes / Margaret Wooster.
Publisher:
Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
xii, 199 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Great Lakes Region (North America)--Environmental conditions.
Water-supply--Great Lakes Region (North America)
Ecology--Great Lakes Region (North America)
Great Lakes Region (North America)--Description and travel.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-193) and index.
Contents:
The Niagara Frontier -- What is Niagara? Harmonic convergence, Niagara Falls -- Scajaquada: portrait of an urban creek -- Buffalo River abandoned -- The power of water -- Beginnings -- Genesee torture tree: rereading Little Beard's signs -- Zoar Valley genesis -- Killdeer and other mysteries -- The eastern door -- High peaks, cloud lakes -- Oswego, Onondaga, and the politics of listing -- Le Fleuve -- Scond voyage -- Leopold revisited.
ISBN:
0791477045 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791477045 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0791477037 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780791477038 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)226389287
LCCN:
2008017299
Locations:
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)
UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

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