| THE MIGHTIER HUDSON The Spirited Revival of a Treasured Landscape Roger D. Stone Michael Sloan (Illus.) Guilford, CT: : Lyons Press, May 2012 |
Rating: 4.5 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-7627-6395-5 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-7627-6395-7 | 256pp. | HC/GSI | $24.95 | |
| Page 26: | "Read a 1852 essay in the New York Times in response to Thomas Cole's effusive descriptions of the Rhine: 'Build a few old ruins...'" |
| Choice of article: S/B "an 1852 essay". |
| Page 49: | "With GE contesting for years that the best way to handle the PCBs was to leave them alone on the seafloor, the EPA pressed for..." |
| Maybe GE was arguing that position; but these particular PCBs were on the bed of the Hudson, not on the floor of the sea. |
| Page 49: | "...dredging operations, which [...] finally got underway in May 2009..." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
| Page 59: | "...with the help of an imaginative and generous deus ex machina, they came up with a creative solution." |
| Usage: This describes a person, but although the Latin phrase literally means "god from the machine," a deus ex machina generally is a device or a concept. |
| Page 84: | "...work started in 1936 on the 83.8-mile Delaware Aqueduct, the world's longest continuous underground tunnel." |
| Redundant word: S/B "tunnel". (Unless there's a longer tunnel above ground.) |
| Page 191: | "But a "B" seems in order, with a special plaudit for Governor Mario Cuomo (1983-94), a gold star for three-term (1995-2006) governor George Pataki..." |
| Capitalization: S/B "Governor". |
| Page 207: | "...reason to hope for progress on the ambitious OurHudson agenda." |
| These last ten words of Chapter 11 lap over onto the first page of Chapter 12. |
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