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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782851903321

Autore

Wooster Margaret

Titolo

Living waters [[electronic resource] ] : reading the rivers of the lower Great Lakes / / Margaret Wooster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, c2009

ISBN

0-7914-7712-6

1-4416-0492-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

333.91/620977

Soggetti

Ecology - Great Lakes Region (North America)

Water-supply - Great Lakes Region (North America)

Great Lakes Region (North America) Description and travel

Great Lakes Region (North America) Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-193) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.