Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc ReisnerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
An amazing exposition of talent and research. Reisner details the discovery and mapping of the Colorado river personifying the Grand Canyon and giving identity, animation and character to the water. The river becomes more anorexic and salinated as the book nears its conclusion, mirroring the river it is describing.
As a scientist, Reisner researches the qualities of living created throughout the Western United States, discusses in detail the farming practices of California, Texas, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Oregon and attempts to establish an awareness for conservancy in the future.
There is, however, one small note that can be made about the writing. Nowhere, in what reading I have accomplished, have I seen another writer use two words, back-to-back, whose total syllable quantity exceeds a dozen. Seems redundant: "Sesquipedalian tergiversation."
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