Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

10 best books like Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Marc Reisner): When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Encounters with the Archdruid, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest, Wilderness and the American Mind, The Secret Knowledge of Water, Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization, A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia, Blue Desert, The Land of Little Rain

AuthorFred Pearce
ISBN0807085731
In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our...
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140159940
John Wesley Powell fought in the Civil War and it cost him an arm. But it didn't stop him from exploring the American West. Here Wallace Stegner, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, gives us a thrilling account of Powell's struggle against western geography and Washington politics. We witness the successes and...
AuthorJohn McPhee
ISBN0374514313
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in...
A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
AuthorWilliam deBuys
ISBN0199778922
With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale...
AuthorRoderick Nash
ISBN0300091222
Roderick Nash's classic study of America's changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine has included...
AuthorCraig Childs
ISBN0316610690
The "essence of the American desert," as the subtitle of Craig Childs's book has it, is water. A desert, by definition, lacks it, but when water does come, it comes in torrential, sometimes devastating abundance. Childs, a thirtysomething desert rat with a vast knowledge of the Southwest's remote...
AuthorSteven Solomon
ISBN0060548304
“I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi—it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup...
AuthorBlaine Harden
ISBN0393316904
After a two-decade absence, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river.


Harden's hometown, Moses Lake, Washington, could not have existed without...
AuthorCharles Bowden
ISBN0816510814
In the promised land of the Sunbelt, people come by the thousands to escape the crush of Eastern cities and end up duplicating the very world they have fled. Can the land remain unchanged?

In Blue Desert, Charles Bowden presents a view of the Southwest that seeks to measure how rapid growth has...
AuthorMary Hunter Austin
ISBN0140249192
“Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite—east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert” is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders...
AuthorDonald Worster
ISBN0195078063
When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side." In his own imaginative...
AuthorWilliam Appleman Williams
ISBN0393305619
William Appleman Williams was one of America’s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with...
AuthorHerbert David Croly
ISBN1555530621
Herbert Croly was a journalist and writer who wrote his most significant work just after the beginning of the twentieth century. He makes the case most simply: there have been two contending forces within liberalism fighting for the soul of the country from the very beginning. That is, there have been...
Dam Nation: How Water Shaped the West and Will Determine Its Future
AuthorStephen Grace
ISBN0762770651
Overall Assessment: Return To Sender

Commentary:
Interestingly enough, Dam Nation is quite readable. So why the Return to Sender assessment? Well there are two essential reasons.

The first reason is that Dam Nation provides no real new insights or information over what Marc...
AuthorRichard White
ISBN0809015838
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.

In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest...
AuthorAlice Outwater
ISBN0465037801
An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource.

Water: A Natural History takes us back to the diaries of the first Western explorers; it moves from the...
AuthorMark Arax
ISBN1586482815
The fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of California, and shaped the landscape for decades to come.

J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while...
AuthorMike Davis
ISBN0375706070
"Graced with a bold political and environmental vision, much splendid phrasemaking and a multitude of facts. . . . A truly eccentric contribution."--The New York Times Book Review  

Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague...
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0452265622
The Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs, and mountain lions. In a voice edged with chagrin, Edward Abbey offers a portrait of the American...
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