Cadillac Desert

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Cadillac Desert
Marc Reisner
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Cadillac Desert

  • 4.50 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 80 Want to read
  • 10 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

"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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Secker & Warburg
Pages
590

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Cadillac desert
Cadillac desert: the American West and its disappearing water
1993, Penguin Books
in English - Rev. and updated
Cover of: Cadillac Desert
Cadillac Desert
January 8, 1990, Secker & Warburg
Hardcover
Cover of: Cadillac desert
Cadillac desert: the American West andits disappearing water
1986, Viking
in English
Cover of: Cadillac desert
Cadillac desert: the American West and its disappearing water
1986, Viking
in English

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First Sentence

"The American West was explored by white men half a century before the first colonists set foot on Virginia's beaches, but it went virtually uninhabited by whites for another three hundred years."

Classifications

Library of Congress
HD1695.W4

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
590

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9753013M
ISBN 10
0436410508
ISBN 13
9780436410505
Library Thing
57189
Goodreads
828501

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April 30, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from amazon.com record