Heartbeats in the Muck: The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor

Waldman, John R.

ISBN 10: 1558217207 / ISBN 13: 9781558217201

Verlag: UNKNO, 1999

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Ichthyologist Waldman traces the fate of the harbor from the 17th century, when it teemed with fish, porpoises, and whales through the rich oyster bed in the early 19th century to today's pollution and annual April warming that energizes bacteria to float the year's murders and suicides to the water's surface. He includes many old and new photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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New York Harbor is a rich aquatic wilderness that surrounds the world's greatest city. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass, visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor suffered centuries of rampant environmental abuse; garbage dumping, oil spills, sewage sludge, pesticides, heavy metals, poisonous PCBs, landfilling, and dredging greatly diminished its life, in some places to nil. John Waldman chronicles this history, focusing on the animals, water quality, and habitats of the harbor, with personal accounts of the explorations of its farthest camp near the George Washington Bridge, the Arthur Kill (home of the resurgent heron colonies), the Hackensack Meadowlands, the darkness under a giant Manhattan pier, and the famously polluted Gowanus Canal. And his prognosis is a good one. Environmental action and awareness has allowed the harbor to begin cleaning itself. Although it will never regain its native biological glory, the return of oysters, striped bass, and a host of other creatures are symbols of what once seemed impossible - New York Harbor reborn. Heartbeats in the Muck is for readers who love probing and important books about natural history such as Beautiful Swimmers. (6 1/4 X 9 1/4, 180 pages, b&w photos)

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Titel: Heartbeats in the Muck: The History, Sea ...
Verlag: UNKNO
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good