Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

Description

Author: Reisner, Marc (1948-2000)

Publisher: Viking

Pub Date: 1993 (5th printing and 21st printing, revised edition)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1:  Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Lower front corner at spine foot has an approx. 1/2″ tear.   Some edge and corner wear.  (21st printing)  Copy 2: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 2″ bend.  Pages 149-154 have a slight bump on their recto edge.  Some edge and corner wear.  This volume has a different cover than that shown in the photograph (5th printing)

Notes: Originally published in 1986, we should have seen this book as the canary in the coal mine of western water problems, even though by then we were already in the midst of them.  Now, deep in a megadrought, this is 20/20 hindsight.  John Wesley Powell saw it coming, Reisner reported it, WE ignored it.  An extraordinary read.