Summary of Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
By IRB Media
()
About this ebook
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
#1 The St. Lawrence Seaway, which was created to connect the Atlantic Ocean with the five inland seas, did not conquer nature, but instead unleashed it in the form of an ecological catastrophe.
#2 The Mediterranean Sea was dry for hundreds of thousands of years, but around 5. 3 million years ago, it was flooded by the Atlantic Ocean. The Black Sea was isolated from the Mediterranean Sea around 7,600 years ago.
#3 The Great Lakes were once isolated from the Atlantic Ocean, but erosion has been taking place at Niagara Falls for thousands of years. It is expected that the falls will disappear in about 50,000 years, which is geologically speaking, pretty soon.
#4 The St. Lawrence River, which flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, is a map-taunting example of how the tendril of blue that stretches out from Lake Ontario turns viciously narrow and impenetrable to upstream navigation just upstream of Montreal.
IRB Media
With IRB books, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.
Read more from Irb Media
Summary of Joe Dispenza's Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Lindsay C. Gibson's Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Clarissa Pinkola Estés's Women Who Run With the Wolves Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of David R. Hawkins's Letting Go Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Jessie Inchauspe's Glucose Revolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of J.L. Collins's The Simple Path to Wealth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review: The Journey Beyond Yourself Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Mark Wolynn's It Didn't Start with You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of James Nestor's Breath Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Dr. Mindy Pelz's The Menopause Reset Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Summary of Ryan Daniel Moran's 12 Months to $1 Million Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Erin Meyer's The Culture Map Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Maté's Hold On to Your Kids Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Al Brooks's Trading Price Action Trends Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Haemin Sunim's The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Anna Coulling's A Complete Guide To Volume Price Analysis Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Brianna Wiest's 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Gabor Mate's When the Body Says No Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Mark Douglas' The Disciplined Trader™ Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Dr. Julie Smith's Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Thomas Erikson's Surrounded by Idiots Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Summary of Lindsay C. Gibson's Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Summary of Rebecca Fett's It Starts With The Egg Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Napoleon Hill's Outwitting the Devil Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Tara Swart's The Source Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Bronnie Ware's Top Five Regrets of the Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Summary of Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Related ebooks
The Sound of Water: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Deep Hanging Out: Wanderings and Wonderment in Native California Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Eve By Cat Bohannon: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Bewilderment: by Richard Powers - A Comprehensive Summary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInto the Heart of the Sea Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsToward the Corner of Mercy and Peace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAging with Wisdom: Reflections, Stories and Teachings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Ed Yong's An Immense World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGuardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet: A Memoir Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Summary of Sara Dykman's Bicycling with Butterflies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paradise Notebooks: 90 Miles across the Sierra Nevada Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEssential Muir (Revised): A Selection of John Muir’s Best (and Worst) Writings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Valley of the Moon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Enchantment By Katherine May:Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert (Trivia-On-Books) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Mary Pipher's A Life in Light Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAll Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Elisabeth Tova Bailey's The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Ovary Jones: How to Fight Cancer Without Losing Your Mind Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of The Heat Will Kill You First By Jeff Goodell: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWest with the Night Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5New York 1, Tel Aviv 0: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ninety-Three Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWest with the Night (Warbler Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5People of the Book - Behind the Story (A Book Companion) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) History For You
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Southern Cunning: Folkloric Witchcraft In The American South Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win | Summary & Key Takeaways Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5"America is the True Old World" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Constitution of the United States of America: 1787 (Annotated) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wild Truth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/518 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Profiles in Courage: Deluxe Modern Classic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rabbit: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5America is the True Old World, Volume II: The Promised Land Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5made in america: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Summary of Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Summary of Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes - IRB Media
Insights on Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Contents
Insights from Chapter 1
Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1
#1
The St. Lawrence Seaway, which was created to connect the Atlantic Ocean with the five inland seas, did not conquer nature, but instead unleashed it in the form of an ecological catastrophe.
#2
The Mediterranean Sea was dry for hundreds of thousands of years, but around 5. 3 million years ago, it was flooded by the Atlantic Ocean. The Black Sea was isolated from the Mediterranean Sea around 7,600 years ago.
#3
The Great Lakes were once isolated from the Atlantic Ocean, but erosion has been taking place at Niagara Falls for thousands of years. It is expected that the falls will disappear in about 50,000 years, which is geologically speaking, pretty soon.
#4
The St. Lawrence River, which flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, is a map-taunting example of how the tendril of blue that stretches out from Lake Ontario turns viciously narrow and impenetrable to upstream navigation just upstream of Montreal.
#5
The Great Lakes were a set of interconnected fish-filled freshwater seas that were larger than any explorer had ever encountered. They were surrounded by forests of pine and hardwoods that were full of game.
#6
The English military began chewing their way upriver to supply troop outposts in 1781, and by 1800, the river beyond Montreal had become accessible to larger Durham boats that could be equipped with a sail and haul more than double the cargo of a bateau.
#7
The Lachine Rapids lock and canal system was built in 1825 to bypass the Rapids, and the impact it had on goods flowing into North America’s interior was almost immediate. By the early 1830s, about 2,000 trips on the river between Montreal and Lake Ontario occurred annually.
#8
Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes, and it is about 350 miles long and 160 miles wide. It holds enough water to submerge a landmass about the size of North and South America under a foot of water.
#9
The Erie Canal, which was built in the early 1800s, was a dream of President Washington’s that was realized with the opening of the canal in 1825. It connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes.
#10
The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a watershed event not unlike what had happened some five million years before when the first drops of Atlantic waters