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"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.
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Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas, Revised Edition
2024, St. Martin's Press
in English
1250325889 9781250325884
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The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
Nov 01, 2016, Tantor Audio
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1515962865 9781515962861
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Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
2014, St. Martin's Press
in English
1466882026 9781466882027
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The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
June 1, 2004, St. Martin's Griffin
Paperback
in English
- First St. Martin's Griffin Edition
0312331037 9780312331030
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The living Great Lakes: searching for the heart of the inland seas
2003, Thomas Dunne Books
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed.
0312251939 9780312251932
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-286) and index.
Map on lining papers.
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"To appreciate the magnitude of the Great Lakes you must get close to them."
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