River Notes: Drought and the Twilight of the American West - A Natural and Human History of the Colorado

From bestselling author, long-time former National Geographic Explorer, and anthropologist Wade Davis comes the story of America's Nile: how it once flowed freely and how human intervention has left it near exhaustion, altering the water temperature, volume, local species, and shoreline of the river Theodore Roosevelt once urged us to "leave it as it is."



Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world's most regulated river drainage, providing most of the water supply o...