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This fine piece of water : an environmental history of Long Island Sound /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andersen, Tom, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Marine pollution > Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.) > History.
Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.) > Environmental conditions > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The birth of the Sound
  • Early residents
  • Adriaen Block and the first explorers
  • The American Mediterranean
  • The Industrial Age
  • Ostering
  • Sprawling suburbs
  • Strangling the Sound
  • The brink of disaster
  • Sewage
  • The cleanup
  • The new Sound.