The following books and videos can help one appreciate the natural history of our Cadillac Desert, and both its allure and potential danger to so many.ĭesert Solitaire, A Season In The WildernessĮdward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire is a wry, witty and poetic evocation of life in the high desert, immersed in unbounded nature and remote from civilization.
This book reminds me of Thucydides’ History Of The Peloponnesian War because even though Cadillac Desert focuses on the history of water development projects in the American West it reveals the essential (and fatal?) political flaw of the American republic, which is based on the all-too-common human failing of short-sightedness in self-interest. When will this land accumulate too many people (and salt) and lose too much water (along with the accompanying salmon and trout) to continue maintaining the present industrialized paradise? Marc Reisner explored this question in depth in his superb book Cadillac Desert. Urn:oclc:78477629 Republisher_date 20131206000309 Republisher_operator Scandate 20131204131107 Scanner American West is a land transformed by an immense network of water projects that cannot be indefinitely maintained. OL21588494M Openlibrary_subject long_now_manual_for_civilization Openlibrary_work Urn:lcp:cadillacdesertam00reis_0:epub:c75b4d79-5306-4e71-9c97-985e057b9ab5 Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier cadillacdesertam00reis_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5r80rq5p Invoice 11 Isbn 9780670199273Ġ670199273 Lccn 85040814 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL21588494M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:52:39 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA1102317 Boxid_2 CH123001 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
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