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Great Divide
Stephen Grace
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Description for Great Divide
Hardback. Written by Stephen Grace, the companion book to The Great Divide, a film by Havey Productions, will be a sweeping, magnificently illustrated story of Colorado water from the region's first inhabitants to the incoming settlers and developers to modern environmentalists. Num Pages: 216 pages, 23 black & white halftones, 100 colour illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 284 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 957.
Written by Stephen Grace, the companion book to The Great Divide, a film by Havey Productions, is a sweeping, magnificently illustrated story of Colorado water from the region’s first inhabitants to the incoming settlers and developers to modern environmentalists. Times and places are covered from the archaeological remains of ancient Native American reservoirs, the first and longest operating water right in Colorado, important innovations in irrigated agriculture, the stunning dams that create reservoirs for storage and recreation, and the natural beauty of Colorado’s wild places. The book, based on the film, will be a natural source for viewers who seek ... Read more
Written by Stephen Grace, the companion book to The Great Divide, a film by Havey Productions, is a sweeping, magnificently illustrated story of Colorado water from the region’s first inhabitants to the incoming settlers and developers to modern environmentalists. Times and places are covered from the archaeological remains of ancient Native American reservoirs, the first and longest operating water right in Colorado, important innovations in irrigated agriculture, the stunning dams that create reservoirs for storage and recreation, and the natural beauty of Colorado’s wild places. The book, based on the film, will be a natural source for viewers who seek ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Guilford, United States
ISBN
9781442247253
SKU
V9781442247253
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Stephen Grace
STEPHEN GRACE studied novel writing with Stratis Haviaras, founding editor of Harvard Review, while caretaking a house where the poet T.S. Eliot lived. After his first novel was published, Grace moved to a trailer park in Laramie, Wyoming, in the wake of the Matthew Shepard murder, to work with at-risk youth and research a novel. To publish a book about ... Read more
Reviews for Great Divide
In this companion book to the documentary film The Great Divide, Grace, a Boulder resident, investigates the precarious state of water in Colorado—who owns it and who is entitled to it—and the battles waged over its control. The 'most coveted' water in the U.S. flows from the Centennial State to 18 other states and Mexico: 'Tens of millions of people, ... Read more