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Cadillac Desert, The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by Marc Reisner
- NATURAL HISTORY
- 1993
- PAPER
- 582 PAGES
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A definitive history of water development in the American desert -- and a now-classic chronicle of wrong-headed policies and misadventures controlling the great rivers of the West. Originally published in 1986, the book was named by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best works of 20th-century non-fiction.
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