High and Dry: The Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River de G. Emlen Hall - 2002-08-28

University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of New Mexico Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Paperback. As new. Signed on the half-title page by the author, this paperback is clean, fresh, uncreased: like new. 291 pages, illustrated, on western water.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. First Paperback Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6" x 9. The 291 Pages Indexed. Two lines of names and page numbers on title page. Owner's name label plus date on first title page and label is also on some interior pages. No other marks or stamps noted and interior is faultless. While High and Dry focuses on clashes of principles and personalities, especially in the courtroom, it remains very much a story about a river and its world in an arid region. There are irrigators here, including the leading old families of southeastern New Mexico, and there is nature here, including the vampires of the West, the rapacious salt cedars relentlessly sucking up the precious Pecos stream flow. But beneath them all is the author, inviting readers to see how tiny gardens grown for the soul are as crucial to the overall story as the adjudication of water rights. Hall gives a masterful summary of the legal and scientific parts of the story,… Leer más

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Paperback / softback. New. Water law, water politics, and especially water shenanigans are at the centre of this book about New Mexico and Texas dividing the Pecos River. It is part memoir, part biography, and part environmental history, part the history of hydrology, and part a contribution to the annals of litigation in the great tradition of Anthony Lewis and Jonathan Harr.

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Univ of New Mexico Pr, 2003. Paperback. New. 288 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches.