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Western Water A to Z
Robert R. Crifasi
其他書名
The History, Nature, and Culture of a Vanishing Resource
出版University Press of Colorado, 2023-01-20
主題History / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / RiversTechnology & Engineering / Environmental / Water Supply
ISBN16464232839781646423286
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=peimEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Western Water A to Z is the first ever field guide to Western water. Reinventing this twentieth-century genre for a twenty-first-century audience, Robert R. Crifasi answers questions about rivers, water projects, the culture of water, the ecosystems water projects have created or destroyed, and the reliance of cities, farms, and industries on this critical resource.

Organized as a collection of terms, the book addresses the most salient water issues and provides helpful background information regarding their origins and implications. Photographs serve a vital role in the cultural dialogue on water and stand as an equal partner to the text. Each subject is covered in about one page and is accompanied by one or two striking images from famous photographers like Margaret Bourke-White, Carleton E. Watkins, Arthur Rothstein, William Henry Jackson, and Dorothea Lang as well as Crifasi’s own work. Water often finds itself at the center of our cultural discourse in art, cinema, and literature, which play essential roles in shaping our understanding and experience of Western water. Crifasi also engages personalities that are nearly synonymous with Western water—John Wesley Powell, Elwood Mead, and Floyd Dominy, among others—to show how their lives intertwined with and often influenced the course of water development across the region.

Travelers, adventurers, students, and anyone interested in water will find Western Water A to Z a handy and entertaining reference guide.