The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes

Heasley, Lynne

Michigan State University Press（2021/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781611864076
• DDC分類 577.78909

Full Description

2022 NAUTILUS SILVER WINNER FOR LYRIC PROSE—In The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes, Lynne Heasley illuminates an underwater world that, despite a ferocious industrial history, remains wondrous and worthy of care. From its first scene in a benighted Great Lakes river, where lake sturgeon thrash and spawn, this powerful book takes readers on journeys through the Great Lakes, alongside fish and fishers, scuba divers and scientists, toxic pollutants and threatened communities, oil pipelines and invasive species, Indigenous peoples and federal agencies. With dazzling illustrations from Glenn Wolff, the book helps us know the Great Lakes in new ways and grapple with the legacies and alternative futures that come from their abundance of natural wealth. Suffused with curiosity, empathy, and wit, The Accidental Reef will not fail to astonish and inspire.

Contents

Contents
Foreword, by Jerry Dennis
Preface
Part I. Freshwater Reef: A World Below and Beyond
At the Reef
Underwater Rashomon
Feast and Famine
On Naming and Knowing
Part II. On Seeing and Knowing: An Underwater Biography
Bad Diver
Waters That Bind
An Interview about Seeing
River People
Power in the Visual
A Not-So-Objective Introduction to the Fish Consumption Advisory
Rooted in Sustainability
A Dazzling Discovery
Currents
(Seeing + Knowing) x Time = Hope?
Part III. The Paradox of Abundance: Or, Problems of Scale
Negotiating Abundance and Scarcity, with Daniel Macfarlane
Water, Oil, and Fish, with Daniel Macfarlane
Salt Mines and Iron Ranges (An Extraction Index)
The Paradox of Abundance
The Accidental Reef
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index