Homewaters by David B. Williams HARDBACK 9780295748603

Homewaters\nby David B. Williams\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: David B. Williams\nTitle: Homewaters\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: MV - University of Washington Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9780295748603\nISBN-10: 0295748605\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAn intimate biography of place and an urgent call to conservationNot 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. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future.