Toxic Lake: Environmental Destruction and the Epic Fight to Save Onondaga Lake

by Thomas Shevory

Book Overview

The environmental history of "the most polluted lake in America."
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Native Americans have long regarded Onondaga Lake as one of the most sacred spaces in the continent,
the place where peace between nations was achieved and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy was created. In the mid-twentieth century, however, it acquired a wholly different reputation as "the most polluted lake in America." Toxic Lake is an environmental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479815683
• ISBN13: 9781479815685
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.8"