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    Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes
    Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes
    Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes
    Audiobook7 hours

    Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes

    Written by Curt Stager

    Narrated by Matthew Josdal

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    About this audiobook

    Lakes are changing rapidly today, not because we are separate from nature but because we are so connected to it. But while many of our effects on the natural world are new, from climate change to nuclear fallout, our connections to it are ancient, as core samples from lake beds reveal. In Still Waters, Curt Stager introduces us to the secret worlds hidden within lakes as he travels from the Adirondack wilderness to the wilds of Siberia, from Massachusetts to the Middle East. For him, lakes are both mirrors and windows into history, culture, and our primal connections to all life. Stager fills his narrative with strange and enchanting details about these submerged worlds-diving insects chirping underwater like crickets, African crater lakes that explode, the growing threats to Thoreau's cherished pond- while emphasizing how beautiful and precious our lakes are, and how, more than ever, it is essential to protect them.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateMay 29, 2018
    ISBN9781681689852
    Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes
    Author

    Curt Stager

    CURT STAGER is an ecologist, a paleoclimatologist and a science writer with a PhD in biology and geology from Duke University. He has published more than three dozen climate- and ecology-related articles and co-hosts a weekly science program on a local radio station. He teaches at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York and holds a research associate post at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, where he investigates the long-term history of climate in Africa, South America and the polar regions. Visit him online at www.curtstager.com.

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    • 5/5
      Very informative! It has history, travel, local lore, science, and a little self-deprecating humor. The author has a nice balanced way of educating rather than use evidence of climate change, pollution, or ill-advised fisheries management as a springboard to drumbeat a pro or con political side of global warming or environmental activism. This is an uncommon topic and thank you to the author for giving us this tour of lakes and the study of them; limnology.