GG reviewed Cadillac desert by Marc Reisner
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5 stars
A fascinating book that should be mandatory reading for all of my fellow Californians.
Hardcover, 590 pages
Published Jan. 8, 1990 by Secker & Warburg.
Cadillac Desert
by Marc Reisner
Marc Reisner: Cadillac Desert (1990, Secker & Warburg)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-436-41050-5
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5 stars
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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.
Subjects
- Conservation of the environment
- 20th century
- Management of land & natural resources
- USA
- World history: c 1750 to c 1900
- c 1700 to c 1800
- c 1800 to c 1900