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Salt Dreams
Debuys, William; Myers, Joan; Buys, Wiliam
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Description for Salt Dreams
Paperback. Num Pages: 307 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; AJ; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 215 x 26. Weight in Grams: 980.
In low places consequences collect, and in all North America you cannot get much lower than the Imperial Valley of southern California, where one town, 186 feet below sea level, calls itself the Lowest Down City in the Western Hemisphere, and where the waters of the Colorado River sustain a billion-dollar agricultural industry. The consequences of that industry drain from the valley into the accidentally man-made Salton Sea, California's largest lake and a vital stopping place for migratory waterfowl. Today the Salton Sea is in desperate environmental trouble. Beginning with the Yuman-speaking tribes encountered by the Spanish in the sixteenth ... Read more
In low places consequences collect, and in all North America you cannot get much lower than the Imperial Valley of southern California, where one town, 186 feet below sea level, calls itself the Lowest Down City in the Western Hemisphere, and where the waters of the Colorado River sustain a billion-dollar agricultural industry. The consequences of that industry drain from the valley into the accidentally man-made Salton Sea, California's largest lake and a vital stopping place for migratory waterfowl. Today the Salton Sea is in desperate environmental trouble. Beginning with the Yuman-speaking tribes encountered by the Spanish in the sixteenth ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
Number of Pages
307
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826324283
SKU
V9780826324283
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About Debuys, William; Myers, Joan; Buys, Wiliam
Wiliam de Buys and Joan Myers
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