The Death and Life of the Great Lakes The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

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Publisher Description

New York Times Bestseller


Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize


Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award



"Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review


The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2017
March 7
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
384
Pages
PUBLISHER
W. W. Norton & Company
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
10.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Great Lakes Explorer ,

Great resource for those who treasure the Great Lakes.

Everyone who enjoys the Great Lakes should read this book. Helps you understand the current state of the lake and how it got where it is. I hope the author writes updates on the lakes as time passes.

J. Hartman ,

The death and life of the great lakes

Until the age of ten I split my summers between our farm that the St. Joe river ran through and cottages near the shore of Lake Michigan where my Dad worked building highways. I'd catch small mouth bass (one a near record) and rock bass in the river and blue gills in the lakes. Many a day was spent on the Lake Michigan beaches.


After many years of living overseas during our marriage, learning scuba diving in the Red Sea and watching great whites and whales in South Africa, my wife and I bought a home a half mile from the Lake Michigan shore.


I watched in alarm the vagaries the lake's health but it wasn't until reading this book that I understood it.

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