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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition Paperback - 1993
by Marc Reisner
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.
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"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.
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- Title Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
- Author Marc Reisner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Pages 672
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date 1993-06-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780140178241 / 0140178244
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 8.36 x 5.52 x 1.09 in (21.23 x 14.02 x 2.77 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Irrigation - Government policy - West (U.S.), Water resources development - Government
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93173272
- Dewey Decimal Code 333.910
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- Booklist, 12/01/2003, Page 640
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