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The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark Arax
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Pages
- 576
- Publication Date
- 2019-05-21
- ISBN
- 9781101875209
- Book Title
- Dreamt Land : Chasing Water and Dust Across California
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.7in
- Genre
- Nature, History, Political Science
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Natural Resources
- Item Width
- 6.7in
- Item Weight
- 34.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 576 Pages
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" An] exhaustive, deeply reported account . . . Few other journalists could have written a book as personal and authoritative . . . As Arax makes plain in this important book, it's been the same story in California for almost two centuries now: When it comes to water, 'the resource is finite. The greed isn't.'" --Gary Krist, The New York Times Book Review A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil--the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. This is a heartfelt, beautifully written book about the land and the people who have worked it--from gold miners to wheat ranchers to small fruit farmers and today's Big Ag. Since the beginning, Californians have redirected rivers, drilled ever-deeper wells and built higher dams, pushing the water supply past its limit. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers--the nut king, grape king and citrus queen--tell their story here for the first time. This is a tale of politics and hubris in the arid West, of imported workers left behind in the sun and the fatigued earth that is made to give more even while it keeps sinking. But when drought turns to flood once again, all is forgotten as the farmers plant more nuts and the developers build more houses. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1101875208
ISBN-13
9781101875209
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038429317
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dreamt Land : Chasing Water and Dust Across California
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Natural Resources
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Nature, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.7in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
34.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hd1694.C2a24 2019
Reviews
"A mesmerizing new book that examines the nation''s most populous state through the prism of its most valuable resource: water. Call author Mark Arax, an award-winning journalist, historian and native son of the Central Valley, a Steinbeck for the 21st century." --Andy Kroll, Rolling Stone "In his sprawling, provocative book The Dreamt Land , journalist Mark Arax examines California''s long-building water crisis with the keen, loving, troubled eye of a native son... The Dreamt Land assumes an urgent, personal tone and incorporates history, memoir and the lives of larger-than-life personalities. Taken together, it is a story biblical in scope and cautionary in tenor." --Gerard Helferich, The Wall Street Journal "Former L.A. Times reporter Mark Arax makes a riveting case that this expanse -- 450 miles lengthwise from Shasta to Tehachapi; 60 miles across from the Sierra Nevada to the Coastal Range -- as much as the world cities on its coast, holds the key to understanding California ... a deeply reported work keenly alive to local subcultures. " --Stephen Phillips, Los Angeles Times "Mark Arax''s monumental new book on California''s water system underscores the madness that makes the Golden State an agricultural powerhouse. [ The Dreamt Land ] is a compelling and powerful history of how power and greed shape the land, and Arax has achieved a masterful distillation of how California got here, warts and all." -- Civil Eats " The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation''s biggest farmers-the nut king, grape king and citrus queen-tell their story here for the first time." -- Chicago Review of Books "You can''t understand California without understanding water, and no one is better at doing that than Mark Arax, whose depth of knowledge about the Central Valley is organic and unparalleled. Plus, he writes like a dream." --Mark Bittman, author of Food Matters " The Dreamt Land is the book Mark Arax was born to write. Nuanced, deeply researched, and profoundly personal, it offers, through its history of agriculture in California, a deep dive into the soul of the state. Arax knows the territory; he has written about rural California for many years. This is his crowning achievement, a work of reportage that is also a work of literature. It belongs on the short list of great books about the state." --David L. Ulin, author of Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles , and editor of the Library of America''s Collected Didion "This is a stunning book. Biblical drama played against the harsh sun and earth of California''s Central Valley. Exodus, diaspora, parting the waters, sowing and reaping, Godlike dominion: it''s all in here. The Dreamt Land calls up Steinbeck and Didion, but it rests squarely on its own words, memories, and stories beyond mere comparison." --William Francis Deverell, Director of Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West "A sweeping, engrossing history of his native California focused on the state''s use, overuse, and shocking mismanagement of water....Arax reveals the consequences to land and wildlife of generations of landowners who have defiantly dug, dammed, and diverted California''s waters."-- Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Arax brings a reporter''s precision of language, a researcher''s depth of perception, and a born storyteller''s voice to this empathetic but unsentimental look at the history, present, and uncertain future of a once-arid region restructured into one of the country''s most productive." -- Publishers Weekly, "You can't understand California without understanding water, and no one is better at doing that than Mark Arax, whose depth of knowledge about the Central Valley is organic and unparalleled. Plus, he writes like a dream." --Mark Bittman " The Dreamt Land is the book Mark Arax was born to write. Nuanced, deeply researched, and profoundly personal, it offers, through its history of agriculture in California, a deep dive into the soul of the state. Arax knows the territory; he has written about rural California for many years. This is his crowning achievement, a work of reportage that is also a work of literature. It belongs on the short list of great books about the state." --David L. Ulin, author of Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles , and editor of the Library of America's Collected Didion "Anyone can write about water in California, but no one can do it like Mark Arax. He comes at the story from the inside: bypassing the simple tropes and instead heading down back roads in search of complexity, contradiction, and outright scandal. The result is a stunningly energetic epic of vision and folly, ambition and greed." --Lisa M. Hamilton, author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness "This is a stunning book. Biblical drama played against the harsh sun and earth of California's Central Valley. Exodus, diaspora, parting the waters, sowing and reaping, Godlike dominion: it's all in here. The Dreamt Land calls up Steinbeck and Didion, but it rests squarely on its own words, memories, and stories beyond mere comparison." --William Francis Deverell, Director of Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, "A mesmerizing new book that examines the nation's most populous state through the prism of its most valuable resource: water. Call author Mark Arax, an award-winning journalist, historian and native son of the Central Valley, a Steinbeck for the 21st century." --Andy Kroll, Rolling Stone "Former L.A. Times reporter Mark Arax makes a riveting case that this expanse -- 450 miles lengthwise from Shasta to Tehachapi; 60 miles across from the Sierra Nevada to the Coastal Range -- as much as the world cities on its coast, holds the key to understanding California ... a deeply reported work keenly alive to local subcultures. " --Stephen Phillips, Los Angeles Times "You can't understand California without understanding water, and no one is better at doing that than Mark Arax, whose depth of knowledge about the Central Valley is organic and unparalleled. Plus, he writes like a dream." --Mark Bittman, author of Food Matters "Arax's highly readable guide to understanding an essential slice of California history also tracks the sometimes-precarious fate of the fruits and vegetables that feed our nation." -- Booklist " The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers-the nut king, grape king and citrus queen-tell their story here for the first time." -- Chicago Review of Books "Arax brings a reporter's precision of language, a researcher's depth of perception, and a born storyteller's voice to this empathetic but unsentimental look at the history, present, and uncertain future of a once-arid region restructured into one of the country's most productive." -- Publishers Weekly " The Dreamt Land is the book Mark Arax was born to write. Nuanced, deeply researched, and profoundly personal, it offers, through its history of agriculture in California, a deep dive into the soul of the state. Arax knows the territory; he has written about rural California for many years. This is his crowning achievement, a work of reportage that is also a work of literature. It belongs on the short list of great books about the state." --David L. Ulin, author of Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles , and editor of the Library of America's Collected Didion "Anyone can write about water in California, but no one can do it like Mark Arax. He comes at the story from the inside: bypassing the simple tropes and instead heading down back roads in search of complexity, contradiction, and outright scandal. The result is a stunningly energetic epic of vision and folly, ambition and greed." --Lisa M. Hamilton, author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness "This is a stunning book. Biblical drama played against the harsh sun and earth of California's Central Valley. Exodus, diaspora, parting the waters, sowing and reaping, Godlike dominion: it's all in here. The Dreamt Land calls up Steinbeck and Didion, but it rests squarely on its own words, memories, and stories beyond mere comparison." --William Francis Deverell, Director of Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West "A sweeping, engrossing history of his native California focused on the state's use, overuse, and shocking mismanagement of water....Arax reveals the consequences to land and wildlife of generations of landowners who have defiantly dug, dammed, and diverted California's waters."-- Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2018-048481
Dewey Decimal
333.91009794
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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