Still Waters, Curt Stager
Still Waters, Curt Stager
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Still Waters
The Secret World of Lakes

Author: Curt Stager

Narrator: Matthew Josdal

Unabridged: 7 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/29/2018


Synopsis

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.

About Curt Stager

Curt Stager is professor of natural sciences at Paul Smith's College, New York. New York State's Carnegie-Case Science Professor of the Year in 2015, he co-hosts Natural Selections on public radio and has published in Science, National Geographic, and the New York Times.


Reviews

Going into this book I knew nothing of limnology, the beautifully named word for the study of lakes. Coming out of this book, I agree with Curt Stager that people should take lakes much more seriously and that stricter regulations should be put upon anglers. That isn't to say that all fishing is ba......more

Goodreads review by Tim

This was a good popular science overview of the science of studying lakes (limnology), lake fauna and flora (including microorganisms), using lake sediments to study climate and changes in local flora over time, issues in lake ecology including sport fishing and water quality, some of the human hist......more

Goodreads review by Peter

Still Waters, The Secret World of Lakes, is a beautiful blend of science of lakes (limnology), observation about lakes and the organisms that live in them (natural history), stories about lakes (history and folklore/mythology), and the spirituality of lakes and people who are part of them (philosoph......more