The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Having spent over six years on the shores of Lake Michigan (in Chicago), I found the story of the Lakes to be quite interesting. It's a little overburdened with data that might have been better left to endnotes, but otherwise it tells a good story. When I arrived in Chicago in 1971, the alewife die-off of 1967 was still in people's memory, and we would see evidence of the fish on the beach, but I never knew why.

My choice for the “book about nature” category in the 2018 Read Harder Challenge. Excellent and disturbing book. It is also the current pick for the PBS Newshour-New York Times book club.