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This fine piece of water : an environmental history of Long Island Sound / Tom Andersen ; foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
LIBRA GC1212.N7 A53 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andersen, Tom, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marine pollution--Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)--History.
- Marine pollution.
- History.
- Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)--Environmental conditions--History.
- Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.).
- Physical Description:
- xv, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1. The birth of the Sound
- 2. Early residents
- 3. Adriaen Block and the first explorers
- 4. The American Mediterranean
- 5. The Industrial Age
- 6. Oystering
- 7. Sprawling suburbs
- 8. Strangling the Sound
- 9. The brink of disaster
- 10. Sewage
- 11. The cleanup
- 12. The new Sound.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300082509
- OCLC:
- 48376008
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