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Historical Society of Michigan State History Award--Historical Society of Michigan Historical Society of Michigan (HSM) State History Award (9/9/2020 12:00:00 AM) 2020 Outstanding Academic Title from Choice--CHOICE American Library Association (ALA) Choice Outstanding Academic Title (12/1/2020 12:00:00 AM) Colorfully explains lamprey biology with a lay audience in mind, and it exemplifies how to communicate science to the public. . . This book is definitely a must read for everyone interested in Sea Lamprey in the Great Lakes, but it will be a pleasure to read, not an obligation. --Fisheries--Margaret F. Docker Fisheries (7/1/2020 12:00:00 AM) Cory Brant delivers the definitive history of the sea lamprey in the Great Lakes, weaving together personal interviews, scientific information, compelling stories of invasion and discovery, and the histories of shipping, commercial fishing, the Erie and Welland Canals, and the locks at Sault Ste. Marie--all in dovetail with the life history of the lamprey. --Jerry Dennis, author of The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes and The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas People who don't know anything about sea lampreys - and maybe even those who do - might look at the cover of Cory Brant's Great Lakes Sea Lamprey and think they are holding a volume of science fiction. The mouth of the lamprey looks like a giant suction-cup filled with small sharp teeth. It almost resembles some sort of horrible machine out of Star Wars or The Matrix. Behind the big circle of the mouth is a small, protruding blue eye. Brant gives us a better description early in this excellent history of the creature, its life in the Great Lakes, and the science that has tried to understand and control it. . . If we hope and need to have a healthy fishery in the Great Lakes we will always have to find a way to control sea lampreys. But Brant lets us know that it 'is more than a fish story. It is a reminder of why natural things are important and how each ecosystem is connected.' --Michigan Quarterly Review--Keith Taylor Michigan Quarterly Review (4/25/2020 12:00:00 AM)

Cory Brant delivers the definitive history of the sea lamprey in the Great Lakes, weaving together personal interviews, scientific information, compelling stories of invasion and discovery, and the histories of shipping, commercial fishing, the Erie and Welland Canals, and the locks at Sault Ste. Marie--all in dovetail with the life history of the lamprey. --Jerry Dennis, author of The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes and The Living Great Lakes Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas

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Cory Brant is a postdoctoral researcher at the Water Center of the Graham Institute of Sustainability at the University of Michigan.

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