SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 3) excelsior editions e e LIVING WATERS Reading the Rivers of the Lower Great Lakes Margaret Wooster Fascinating stories based on the author’s exploration of eight rivers in New York and Québec. In Living Waters, Margaret Wooster canoes, portages, camps beside, and wades into eight Great Lakes watersheds across New York and Québec, returning with her pockets full of original stories from these beautiful, boggy, and prehistoric waterways. From the history of hydropower development on the Niagara River to the search for a wizard’s cave in the Zoar Valley, from a portrait of an urban creek in Buffalo, to the origins and demise of New France on the St. Lawrence, Living Waters offers a fascinating, first-person exploration of the rivers that impact our world’s largest freshwater ecosystem. JANuARy 192 pp 18 b/w photographs, 19 maps, 4 figures $14.95/T pb 978-0-7914-7704-5 $45.00 hc 978-0-7914-7703-8 NATuRE TRAVEL NEW yORK e “Living Waters explores tributaries and rivers that feed and drain to Great Lakes across New York State and down the St. Lawrence with an appreciation for their rich natural and cultural histories, and an awareness of their impact on the largest freshwater ecosystem in the world. Aldo Leopold, a guiding voice throughout, once said that the best way to nurture an environmental ethic in society is to help people see, feel, love and have faith in actual places. These river stories cultivate that intimacy.” — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Chairman, Waterkeeper Alliance Margaret Wooster is the author of Somewhere to Go on Sunday: A Guide to Natural Treasures in Western New York. She lives in Buffalo, New York. www.sunypress.edu “This is a tremendously good book. People tend to overlook the magnificently aqueous nature of New York State and Living Waters does that watery topography a great deal of justice.” — Bill McKibben “This is one of the most important and entertaining chronicles ever written of Great Lakes Country.” — Dave Dempsey, author of On the Brink:The Great Lakes in the 21st Century and Great Lakes for Sale http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61739 http://www.sunypress.edu
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