River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado

River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado

Wade Davis
The Colorado River from source to delta — its geology, its dams, its indigenous history, and what's left after a century of diversion. Compact and devastating.
desert River & Water Narrative Nonfiction American Southwest
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Publisher Island Press
Published 2013
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