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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822356303321

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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

Excelsior Editions

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.

Sommario/riassunto

In Living Waters, Margaret Wooster canoes, portages, camps beside, and wades into eight Great Lakes watersheds across New York and Québec, returning with her pockets full of original stories from these beautiful, boggy, and prehistoric waterways. From the history of hydropower development on the Niagara River to the search for a wizard's cave in the Zoar Valley, from a portrait of an urban creek in Buffalo, to the origins and demise of New France on the St. Lawrence, Living Waters offers a fascinating, first-person exploration of the rivers that impact our world's largest freshwater ecosystem.