Susquehanna, River of Dreams - Softcover

Stranahan, Susan Q.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801851475 ISBN 13: 9780801851476

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

Synopsis

In Susquehanna, River of Dreams award-winning journalist Susan Q. Stranahan tells the sweeping story of one of America's great rivers – ranging in time from the Susquehanna's geologic origins to the modern threats to its eco-system, describing human settlements, industry and pollution, and recent efforts to save the river and its "drowned estuary," the Chesapeake Bay. The result is a unique natural history of the vast Susquehanna watershed and a compelling look at environmental issues of national importance.

About this title

About the Author

Susan Q. Stranahan is an award-winning journalist who was a member of the Philadelphia Inquirer team awarded a 1980 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Three Mile Island accident. She is the co-author of Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster and Beyond the Flames: One Toxic Dump, Two Decades of Sorrow.

From the Back Cover

Rivers offer the perfect framework for a storyteller. They provide a beginning and an end with an obvious flow from one to the other. They neatly link people and events in history. They serve as paths of discovery and arteries of commerce. Not only can rivers be counted on for moments of great drama, but they also invariably attract their share of eccentric characters. So it is with the Susquehanna.

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801851475
• ISBN 13: 9780801851476
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336