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Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition
- The American West and Its Disappearing Water
- Narrado por: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
- Duración: 27 h y 58 m
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The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the US Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West.
Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning exposé and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of Eden - an Eden that may be only a mirage.
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Fordlandia by National Book Award finalist Greg Grandin tells the enthralling tale of Henry Ford’s failed attempts to transform a Connecticut-sized chunk of Brazilian rainforest into a homespun slice of American utopia.
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An eye-opening account of an arrogant man's folly
- De Melissa en 09-17-13
De: Greg Grandin
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Windfall
- The Booming Business of Global Warming
- De: McKenzie Funk
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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Global warming's physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see a potential windfall in each of these forces. The melt is a boon for newly arable, mineral rich regions of the Arctic, such as Greenland - and for the man-made snow trade. Drought creates opportunities for private firefighters working for insurance companies as well as for fund managers backing south Sudanese warlords who control local farmland.
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unintended windfalls mixed with obvious perils
- De Andy en 02-09-14
De: McKenzie Funk
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The King of California
- J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
- De: Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 19 h y 29 m
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J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields". The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s, drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world.
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Interesting story of California Ag history
- De Jean en 08-11-14
De: Mark Arax, y otros
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 31 h y 36 m
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The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. McCullough expertly weaves the many strands of this momentous event into a captivating tale.
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No Stone Unturned
- De Tim en 06-25-13
De: David McCullough
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The Men Who United the States
- America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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How did America become “one nation, indivisible”? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators. Introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today’s United States, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree.
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Sarcastic
- De Cynthia Hartman en 06-16-16
De: Simon Winchester
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Nothing Like It in the World
- The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
- De: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrado por: Jeffrey DeMunn
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
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Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life. The U.S. government pitted two companies - the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads - against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. As its peak the work force approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as 15,000 workers on each line. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, lived off buffalo, deer, and antelope.
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A tragic waste
- De Joshua Tretakoff en 04-11-03
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- De: Thomas Hager
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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At the dawn of the 20th century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the worlds scientists to find a solution. This is the story of the two enormously gifted, fatally flawed men who found it: the brilliant, self-important Fritz Haber and the reclusive, alcoholic Carl Bosch. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, controlled world markets, and saved millions of lives.
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Great Book Thoroughly Researched
- De Terry A. Gray en 10-21-11
De: Thomas Hager
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Divided Highways
- Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
- De: Tom Lewis
- Narrado por: Jim D. Johnston
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape.
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Lots of interesting facts. Poor narration
- De Richard en 06-01-21
De: Tom Lewis
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
- John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
- De: Wallace Stegner
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner recounts the remarkable career of Major John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of the Southwest Indian tribes. This classic work is a penetrating and insightful study of the Powell’s career, from the beginning of the Powell Survey, in which Powell and his men famously became the first to descend the Colorado River, to his eventual expulsion from the Geological Survey.
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History repeats itself.
- De Roy en 09-12-11
De: Wallace Stegner
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American-Made
- The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work
- De: Nick Taylor
- Narrado por: James Boles
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
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When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in March 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. Four years into the Great Depression, a staggering 13 million American workers were jobless and many millions more of their family members were equally in need. Desperation ruled the land. In 1935, after a variety of temporary relief measures, a permanent nationwide jobs program was created.
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The true spirit of America.
- De Helen en 07-01-08
De: Nick Taylor
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Railroaded
- The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
- De: Richard White
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 23 h y 5 m
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The transcontinental railroads of the late 19th century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the US economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, and remade the landscape of the West. As wheel and rail, car and coal, they opened new worlds of work and ways of life.
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Correcting the Myth of the Transcontinentals
- De Keith en 06-23-18
De: Richard White
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Hoover Dam
- An American Adventure
- De: Joseph E. Stevens
- Narrado por: Kevin Charles Minatrea
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken: the construction of Hoover Dam. Through the worst years of the Great Depression as many as five thousand laborers toiled twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to erect the huge structure that would harness the Colorado River and transform the American West.
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Enjoyed this book
- De Nancy Ann en 02-18-20
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Where the Water Goes
- Life and Death Along the Colorado River
- De: David Owen
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes listeners on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the US-Mexico border where the river runs dry.
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Water issues are never about only water.
- De Bonny en 08-20-17
De: David Owen
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The Dreamt Land
- Chasing Water and Dust Across California
- De: Mark Arax
- Narrado por: Mark Arax
- Duración: 25 h y 32 m
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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. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion.
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Damn Near Perfect!
- De Charlie Morton en 12-08-19
De: Mark Arax
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
- John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
- De: Wallace Stegner
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner recounts the remarkable career of Major John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of the Southwest Indian tribes. This classic work is a penetrating and insightful study of the Powell’s career, from the beginning of the Powell Survey, in which Powell and his men famously became the first to descend the Colorado River, to his eventual expulsion from the Geological Survey.
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History repeats itself.
- De Roy en 09-12-11
De: Wallace Stegner
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Water to the Angels
- William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created - William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct - a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man whose vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.
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Water challenges never end
- De John Matel en 04-10-15
De: Les Standiford
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The King of California
- J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
- De: Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 19 h y 29 m
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J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields". The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s, drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world.
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Interesting story of California Ag history
- De Jean en 08-11-14
De: Mark Arax, y otros
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Rivers in the Desert
- William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
- De: Margaret Leslie Davis
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitable environment by designing the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere, bringing water from the mountains to support a large city. This "fascinating history" chronicles Mulholland's dramatic ascension to wealth and fame - followed by his tragic downfall after the sudden collapse of the dam he had constructed.
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Many inaccuracies-do some independent reseach
- De Nancy Pf en 05-19-24
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Where the Water Goes
- Life and Death Along the Colorado River
- De: David Owen
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes listeners on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the US-Mexico border where the river runs dry.
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Water issues are never about only water.
- De Bonny en 08-20-17
De: David Owen
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The Dreamt Land
- Chasing Water and Dust Across California
- De: Mark Arax
- Narrado por: Mark Arax
- Duración: 25 h y 32 m
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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. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion.
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Damn Near Perfect!
- De Charlie Morton en 12-08-19
De: Mark Arax
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
- John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
- De: Wallace Stegner
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner recounts the remarkable career of Major John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of the Southwest Indian tribes. This classic work is a penetrating and insightful study of the Powell’s career, from the beginning of the Powell Survey, in which Powell and his men famously became the first to descend the Colorado River, to his eventual expulsion from the Geological Survey.
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History repeats itself.
- De Roy en 09-12-11
De: Wallace Stegner
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Water to the Angels
- William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created - William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct - a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man whose vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.
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Water challenges never end
- De John Matel en 04-10-15
De: Les Standiford
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The King of California
- J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
- De: Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 19 h y 29 m
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J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields". The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s, drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world.
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Interesting story of California Ag history
- De Jean en 08-11-14
De: Mark Arax, y otros
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Rivers in the Desert
- William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
- De: Margaret Leslie Davis
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitable environment by designing the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere, bringing water from the mountains to support a large city. This "fascinating history" chronicles Mulholland's dramatic ascension to wealth and fame - followed by his tragic downfall after the sudden collapse of the dam he had constructed.
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- De Nancy Pf en 05-19-24
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The Secret Knowledge of Water
- There Are Two Easy Ways to Die in the Desert: Thirst and Drowning
- De: Craig Childs
- Narrado por: Craig Childs
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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Deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to seasoned explorers. Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West, and his treks through arid lands in search of water reveal the natural world at its most extreme.
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- De Jamesdcawley en 04-09-20
De: Craig Childs
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Downriver
- Into the Future of Water in the West
- De: Heather Hansman
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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Fights over the Green River's water, and what's going to happen to it in the future, are longstanding, intractable, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier, and more people depend on the river with each passing year. As a former raft guide and an environmental reporter, Heather Hansman knew these fights were happening, but she felt driven to see them from a different perspective - from the river itself.
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- De John Richins en 04-27-20
De: Heather Hansman
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The Mirage Factory
- Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
- De: Gary Krist
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California - bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges - seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world’s iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los Angeles’ meteoric rise were three flawed visionaries: William Mulholland, an immigrant ditch-digger turned self-taught engineer; D.W. Griffith, who transformed the motion picture from a vaudeville-house novelty into a cornerstone of American culture; and Aimee Semple McPherson, a charismatic evangelist.
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Great start, weak completion
- De steve en 05-11-21
De: Gary Krist
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The Emerald Mile
- The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
- De: Kevin Fedarko
- Narrado por: Kevin Fedarko
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
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In the spring of 1983, massive flooding along the length of the Colorado River confronted a team of engineers at the Glen Canyon Dam with an unprecedented emergency that may have resulted in the most catastrophic dam failure in history. In the midst of this crisis, the decision to launch a small wooden dory named “The Emerald Mile” at the head of the Grand Canyon, just fifteen miles downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam, seemed not just odd, but downright suicidal.
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- De Theo, Asheville NC en 07-07-24
De: Kevin Fedarko
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Encounters with the Archdruid
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses—on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide.
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McPhee at the absolute height of his powers
- De Tom Craven en 06-25-24
De: John McPhee
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Desert Solitaire
- A Season in the Wilderness
- De: Edward Abbey
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the essence of his life during three seasons as a park ranger in southeastern Utah.
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- De Todd Steele en 02-06-12
De: Edward Abbey
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Rising Tide
- The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Barry Grizzard
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
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An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known, the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever.
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- De Susie en 10-21-13
De: John M. Barry
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When the Rivers Run Dry
- Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
- De: Fred Pearce
- Narrado por: Tony Craine
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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Throughout history, rivers have been our foremost source of fresh water both for agriculture and for individual consumption, but now economists say that by 2025 water scarcity will cut global food production by more than the current U.S. grain harvest. In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce focuses on the dire state of the world's rivers to provide our most complete portrait yet of the growing world water crisis and its ramifications for us all.
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- De John M. en 03-05-11
De: Fred Pearce
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Down the Great Unknown
- John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
- De: Edward Dolnick
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell, and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis - and as perilous. The 10 men set out from Green River Station, Wyoming Territory, down the Colorado in four wooden rowboats. Ninety-nine days later, six half-starved wretches came ashore near Callville, Arizona.
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- De HC-2 NAS Norfolk '92 en 08-17-19
De: Edward Dolnick
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The Box
- How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- De: Marc Levinson
- Narrado por: Adam Lofbomm
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried 58 shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.
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Fascinating Topic sometimes lost in minutiae
- De zombie64 en 07-15-14
De: Marc Levinson
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
- De: Edward Abbey
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 16 h y 41 m
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Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power - taking on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are threatening the natural habitat.
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A desert classic that will draw you in
- De Mark en 05-20-15
De: Edward Abbey
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The Swamp
- The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
- De: Michael Grunwald
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
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The Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. In this book Michael Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and "reclaim" it and how Mother Nature refused to bend to their will; in the most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the Everglades. But the Army Corps of Engineers finally tamed the beast with levees and canals, converting half the Everglades into sprawling suburbs and sugar plantations.
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This is not Jiminy Cricket's river
- De Robert R. en 09-02-18
De: Michael Grunwald
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition
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Required Reading
What an amazing encyclopedia of information on the development of the American West. This book includes great miniature geologic histories, histories of huge bureaucracies, and yet very detailed points water resources and their management.
This book was very well investigated and reported. The author does get a little editorial at times, especially when talking about whether or not the investment was worth it, but that's easy to overlook given the obvious amount of work that went into this book.
Like others have stated, the audio is hard to get used to.
The only downside is that the book was written so long ago...so much history to catch up on since the writing in this book. The 2017 update is okay, but certainly missing the Marc Reisner command of information.
I would mark this as a must for educational reading.
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- Daniel B.
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Amazing Story of the American West
Knew there was an occasional water shortage in California. Didn’t know how greed and politics had twisted things so much. How bad it has gotten. Some what of a happy ending. But there is a long way to go. Hopefully nature will recover when we get our act together. This book changes the way we should think about water usage everywhere.
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- Greg “Woody” Greenwood
- 12-28-18
Stunning information and realization
My actions are forever changed relative to conservation living in the American West. Thank You Marc for your effort to put this exhaustive research together in a sensible manner for the common citizen to realize we can make a small difference in our dialing living. How do we proliferate this into the mainstream?
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- nick
- 07-21-18
awesome book
been waiting for this book to come out on audible for a few years now I give it a 5 star rating only because I can't give it a 6 star awesome book tones of info.
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- Kimberly S. Newberg
- 05-28-23
Great insight to many current challenges
Worthwhile history and futuristic extrapolation for all interested in bipartisan waste of our scarce resources.
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- T. James
- 08-05-19
afterrward was a letdown.
the time of the afterward did not match the time of the rest of the book; way too politically charged.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-31-21
Informative but dragged on
Great subject matter, I learned a ton about the history of water management in the wear and in America in general. It became a little repetitive over time, and I feel he could have edited it down a good amount from 26 or so hours. The last few hours were an update which was nice to know what happened over the last 25 years, but I was a bit fatigued at that point. The first narrator’s voice sounded thirsty which I thought was appropriate
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- JG
- 11-28-22
Required Reading for those in the West!
Read, Learn. Be changed. Change.
This book explains the history and lays out the future. Let’s make the changes.
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- Shirley
- 10-05-19
Great story, death rattle narration.
Joe Spieler's narration is like listening to a man on his death bed gasping for breath, who beckons you to lean forward to hear his last critically-important sentence. And you do it because you really need the information, but it takes 28 hours of painfully listening to that freaking death rattle to get it. And you are glad you got the information because it is really amazing necessary stuff, but you can never quite get that rasping breathy hiss out of your head. On top of that he often mispronounces words, like JOB's Daughters. Whyyyyy. On the other hand, the content of this book was awesome. I am glad for the education, and quite the eye-opening education this is. It has always been the location of water that shapes our world, but I never appreciated how wealth, greed and arrogance shapes who gets to use it. The audacity of humans to divert and harness water simply because they can, begs the very large question of whether they should. This book is a great historical account of how water created the west and the west created water.
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- peter dessau
- 02-05-21
A Wonderful Read!
This book is a captivating blend of history, political science, and natural history. Regardless of your political perspective, the book is a fascinating review of ‘Big Government’ programs that ran amok to the chagrin of nearly everyone at one time or another.
The updates are helpful, bringing the book current to 2017.
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