Pandora's Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway by Alexander, Jeff

Pandora's Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway

A 50-year retrospective of the St. Lawrence Seaway: The Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest...
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Pandora's Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway by Alexander, Jeff

Pandora's Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway

€48,92

Pandora's Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway

€48,92
Author: Jeff Alexander
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A 50-year retrospective of the St. Lawrence Seaway: The Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry, linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes unleashed a biological shift that reconfigured the world's largest freshwater ecosystems. Pandora's Locks is the story of politicians and engineers who, driven by hubris and handicapped by ignorance, demanded that the Seaway be built at any cost. It is the tragic tale of government agencies that could have prevented ocean freighters from laying waste to the Great Lakes ecosystems, but failed to act until it was too late. Blending science with compelling personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North America's freshwater seas transformed these wondrous lakes.

Author: Jeff Alexander
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 05/01/2011
Pages: 431
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.62lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.27w x 1.22d
ISBN: 9780870138720

About the Author
Alexander, Jeff: -

Jeff Alexander is an award-winning environmental journalist and author of The Muskegon: The Majesty and Tragedy of Michigan's Rarest River.



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