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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxii, 403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The award winning writer, photographer, filmmaker, and ethnographer--a longtime Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society--recounts an enthralling journey down Colombia's Magdalena River that illuminates the country's rebirth after decades of political violence, drug cartels, and guerrilla warfare"--
Author
Publisher
Earth Aware Editions
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color, some folded) ; 29 x 32 cm + 1 videodisc (sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
It’s an alarming if little-known fact: one of the world’s mightiest rivers, the Colorado, no longer reaches the sea. Every drop of its water is allocated to agriculture and communities along the way and none remains for the Colorado Delta at river’s end, a once-thriving estuary that supported North America’s most diverse biosphere. Grand Canyon: A River at Risk draws attention the river’s plight as well as to the larger issue of the looming...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
162 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world's most regulated river, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix, cities that are home to more than 25 million people. If it ceased flowing, the water held in its reservoirs might hold out for three to four years, but after that it would be necessary to abandon most of southern California and...
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