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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition Paperback - 1993

by Reisner, Marc

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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.

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  • Title Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
  • Author Reisner, Marc
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2
  • Condition Used:Good
  • Pages 672
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
  • Date 1993-01-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0140178244
  • 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
  • Themes
    • 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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Summary

"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.

From the publisher

Marc Reisner worked for many years at the Natural Resources Defense Council. His Cadillac Desert was a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee. He died in 2000.

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  • Booklist, 12/01/2003, Page 640

About the author

Marc Reisner worked for many years at the Natural Resources Defense Council. In 1979, he received an Alicia J. Patterson Journalism Fellowship and began the research for Cadillac Desert. He was also the author of Game Wars: The Undercover Pursuit of Wildlife Poachers and A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate. Resisner died in 2000.

Lawrie Mott, formerly an environmental heath scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, lives in a Bay Area county that receives all its water from local supplies. From Marc Reisner, her late husband, she learned about water in the West at their dinner table and during long drives through western states. Mott received her B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her M.S. from Yale.

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