Dan Egan
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
xix, 364 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.d2023-03-09
Physical Desc
xxvii, 228 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of phosphorus spans the globe and vast tracts of human history. The race to mine phosphorus took people from the battlefields of Waterloo, which were looted for the bones of fallen soldiers, to the fabled guano islands off Peru, the Bone Valley of Florida, and the sand dunes of the Western Sahara. Over the past century, phosphorus has made farming vastly more productive, feeding the enormous increase in the human population. Yet, as Egan...
