A River No More
Title | A River No More PDF eBook |
Author | Philip L. Fradkin |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 1996-09-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520205642 |
Here is the definitive history of the development of the Colorado River and the claims made on its waters, from its source in the Wyoming Rockies to the California and Arizona borders where, so saline it kills plants, it peters out just short of the Gulf of California. Ever increasing demands on the river to supply cities in the desert render this new edition all too timely. Philip Fradkin has updated this valuable book with a new preface.
The River of No Return
Title | The River of No Return PDF eBook |
Author | Bee Ridgway |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Total Pages | 465 |
Release | 2014-03-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0142180831 |
Named a Notable Fiction Book of 2013 by The Washington Post “An engrossing adventure, with mystery, romance, humor, and impeccable historical detail.” –The Boston Globe Devon, 1815. The charming Lord Nicholas Davenant and the beguiling Julia Percy should make a perfect match. But before their love has a chance to grow, Nicholas is presumed dead in the Napoleonic war. Nick, however, is lost in time. Somehow he escaped certain death by leaping two hundred years forward to the present day where he finds himself in the care of a mysterious society – the Guild. Questioning the limits of the impossible, Nick is desperate to find a way back to the life he left behind. Yet with the future of time itself hanging in the balance, could it be that the girl who first captured his heart has had the answers all along? Can Nick find a way to return to her?
Ain't No River
Title | Ain't No River PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon Ewell Foster |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | African American women |
ISBN | 9780739416341 |
"Garvin Daniels is a sassy, bright, self-absorbed D.C. lawyer with her eyes on a partnership. There's just one problem--Meemaw, her seventy-something grandmother! ... When Garvin discovers her grandmother's radical emancipation--and the man who's leading the charge--she hits the road for her North Carolina home, determined to help Meemaw get it together before she goes too far."--Page 4 of cover.
River of No Return
Title | River of No Return PDF eBook |
Author | John Carrey |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Boats and boating |
ISBN | 9780960356621 |
Where the Water Goes
Title | Where the Water Goes PDF eBook |
Author | David Owen |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2018-04-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0735216096 |
“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.
Silent Tears No More
Title | Silent Tears No More PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Baer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 148 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781556611193 |
Cedar River Daydreams: Episode 7. Binky must decide whether she has the courage or the right to intervene in Nicole's life.
Goodbye to a River
Title | Goodbye to a River PDF eBook |
Author | John Graves |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2010-11-10 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0307773353 |
In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.