Repass Bookĭownload Emerald City Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle Witty, graceful, and deeply informed, Homewaters weaves history and science into a fascinating and hopeful narrative, one that will introduce newcomers to the astonishing life that inhabits the Sound and offers longtime residents new insight into and appreciation of the waters they call home. The book also takes an unflinching look at how the Sound’s ecosystems have suffered from human behavior, including pollution, habitat destruction, and the effects of climate change. He sheds light on how warfare shaped development and how people have moved across this maritime highway, in canoes, the mosquito fleet, and today’s ferry system. In conversations with archaeologists, biologists, and tribal authorities, Williams traces how generations of humans have interacted with such species as geoducks, salmon, orcas, rockfish, and herring.
Focusing on the area south of Port Townsend and between the Cascade and Olympic mountains, Williams uncovers human and natural histories in, on, and around the Sound. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region’s ecological complexities. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. Watch the trailer: Too High and Too Steep was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture's Heritage Program.ĭownload Homewaters Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle In the course of telling this fascinating story, Williams helps readers find visible traces of the city?s former landscape and better understand Seattle as a place that has been radically reshaped. Williams uses his deep knowledge of Seattle, scientific background, and extensive research and interviews to illuminate the physical challenges and sometimes startling hubris of these large-scale transformations, from the filling in of the Duwamish tideflats to the massive regrading project that pared down Denny Hill.
As the city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its topography to accommodate their changing visions. Residents and visitors in today?s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. Download Too High and Too Steep Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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