The Great Lakes Water Wars
The Great Lakes Water Wars

Author: Peter Annin

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2009-08-25

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 159726637X

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The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.

History of the Great Lakes
History of the Great Lakes

Author: Emily Jankowski

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1482414171

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The historical significance of the Great Lakes region stretches from thousands of years ago to the present day. Home to factories, important historical landmarks, and miles of coastline, the Great Lakes region is steeped in the past, but looking ahead to the future. Readers follow the growth of the Great Lakes, beginning with early battles to settle and control the region. Sidebars add to the main content's discussion of significant events, while readers travel through the area's past with the help of photographs and historical images. Colorful maps of the region show readers where history happened and introduce the region's major rivers, states, and landforms.

Great Rivers of the World
Great Rivers of the World

Author: Paolo Novaresio

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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The courses of the great rivers recount the history of the Earth and mankind. This book is dedicated to 25 of the world's longest, most important rivers, from the Ganges, Mekong, Tigris, and Euphrates to the Nile and Amazon, from the Mississippi to Danube. This lavish volume aims to portray them as never before. It alternates aerial and panoramic photographs with detailed close-ups and hidden views that instil in the reader the sights and impressions that can be enjoyed when travelling along these great rivers from their sources to their estuaries. Historic photographs and archival documents make it possible to relive the decisive moments in the evolution of individual watercourses; enthralling narratives describe the characteristics and location of each river. Great Rivers of the World is a nature book, brimming with facts and information; it is also a history book that discusses humankind and its age-old relationship with rivers - it is even an art book, given its magical and emotive evocations of memorable riverscape.

Living Waters
Living Waters

Author: Margaret Wooster

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2009-01-29

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780791477045

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Fascinating stories based on the author’s exploration of eight rivers in New York and Québec.

Rivers of Sand
Rivers of Sand

Author: Josh Greenberg

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1493007831

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Rivers of Sand is an exploration of the unique techniques needed to fish the waters of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, and a discussion of (and paean to) the region itself.

Father Marquette and the Great Rivers
Father Marquette and the Great Rivers

Author: August Derleth

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780898706642

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This Vision book for youth 9 - 15 years old tells the thrilling story of one of America's greatest missionaries who came down from Canada with explorer Louis Joliet to explore the mighty Mississippi River, the "great river" bordered by Indian tribes who killed white men on sight. Of the few who had dared explore this immense waterway, none had lived to return and report where it emptied. If he could travel to the mouth of the "great river," Fr. Marquette hoped to obtain new lands for France and new souls for Jesus Christ. He braved the dangers of tomahawks and tortures to bring the Word of God to the Indians of the New World. Rapids, floods, Indian superstitions, tribal warfare - these are only a few of the obstacles Father Marquette and Louis Joliet encountered in trying to meet their challenge. Illustrated.