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Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark Arax (1101910194)
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- ISBN-13
- 9781101910191
- ISBN
- 9781101910191
- Book Title
- Dreamt Land : Chasing Water and Dust Across California
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- 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
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 16 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.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1101910194
ISBN-13
9781101910191
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25038654738
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dreamt Land : Chasing Water and Dust Across California
Format
Trade Paperback
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
2020
Genre
Nature, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
16 Oz
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Dewey Decimal
333.91009794
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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