RIVERS OF EMPIRE 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 American We
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| Title | : | RIVERS OF EMPIRE |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (598 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 039451680X |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 402 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1986-01-12 |
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Editorial :
"Classic."--New Internationalist
"Extremely wonderful and well-written."--Thomas G. Alexander, Brigham Young University
"Worster is an eloquent, often passionate historian.This important book, sure to be furiously debated, is a history of the West in terms of its most essential resource, water.It examines how manipulation of water has combined with frontier myths, expectations, and illusions, some of them carefully cultivated by interested parties, to create the ambiguous modern West."--Wallace Stegner
"Worster is capable of making the most prosaic facts come alive through his mastery of the language, his imagery, and his ability to weave his ideas with events and personalities into a fascinating historical record."--The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Many readers will disagree with Worster's conclusions, but they are so forcefully presented that they cannot be dismissed, and will likely shape the discussions for years to come.A language
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 way, Thoreau was imitating the countless young pioneers, prospectors, and entrepreneurs who were zealously following Horace Greeley's famous advice to "go west." Yet while the epic chapter in American history opened by these adventurous men and women is filled with stories of frontier hardship, we rarely think of one of their greatest problems--the lack of water resources. And the same difficulty that made life so troublesome for early settlers remains one of the most pressing concerns in the western states of the late-twentieth century.
The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dream
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