This fine piece of water : an environmental history of Long Island Sound / Tom Andersen ; foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Author:: Andersen, Tom, 1954-
Published:: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
Copyright Date:: ©2002
Physical Description:: xv, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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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.

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ISBN:

0300082509 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Shenango Valley copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20023

Endowment Note:

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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