The dreamt land chasing water and dust across California
"A vivid, searching journey into California's complicated relationship to its water, from the Gold Rush to today : an epic story of the struggle to overcome the constraints of nature. Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land, who has watched as the ba...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Apricot's lesson
- Agrarian revolt
- Singed
- Sinking
- Upon dry land
- Staking Eden
- Eureka
- Tailings
- Mining soil
- Poor Henry
- Fruiting the plain
- Steal us a river
- Moving the rain
- Kingdom of wonderful
- The candy man
- Citrus hills
- Raisinland
- The whale
- Poisoned pond
- 960-Acre babies
- Holy water.
