Cadillac Desert, Pt. 1: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc P. Reisner
	List Price:   $18.00 Unit Price:   $14.40 You Save:   $3.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   0140178244 ISBN-13:   9780140178241 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Edition:   Revised, illustrated Category:   Agriculture Pub. Date:   June 1993 Pages:   608 Format:   B-Trade Pbk
Subjects
WATER-SUPPLY_UNITED STATES WEST (U.S.)_DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL
Description/Notes
'Beautifully written and meticulously researched.'-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water covers more than a century of public and private desert reclamation in the American West. 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.