Cadillac Desert The American West and Its Disappearing Water

Name: Cadillac Desert The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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ISBN: 9780140104325

ISBN-10: 0140104321

ISBN-13: 9780140104325

Edition: N/A

Authors: Marc P. Reisner

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Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological disaster. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Photos.Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book details

List price: $13.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/1/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 60
Size: 7.00" wide x 5.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




A Semidesert with a Desert Heart



A Country of Illusion



The Red Queen



First Causes



An American Nile (I)



The Go-Go Years



Rivals in Crime



Dominy



An American Nile (II)



The Peanut Farmer and the Pork Barrel



Chinatown



Those Who Refuse to Learn



Things Fall Apart



A Civilization, if You Can Keep It


Afterword to the Revised Edition


Acknowledgments


Notes and Bibliography


Index


Illustrations follow pages 182 and 374