Imagine a placid blue lake in the middle of one of the world's most arid deserts! From prehistoric basketmakers, who left their petroglyphs in the canyons, to the dam builders of the Great Depression, this guide features unforgettable history and scenery.
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A good summary of the area,
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This review is from: Lake Mead National Recreation Area (Paperback)
This book is probably exactly what you'd expect in a short book about Lake Mead. It's a good summary, and although slightly starstruck by the rightness of building Hoover Dam--"How, wondered Mrs D.L. Carmody, could mere man ever attempt to master the 'strange mountains, that oily river, those masses of black rock, those deep cravasses...that overwhelming fortress built by nature?'" --it's refreshing just for being an account of Lake Mead and not of Lake Powell, Lake Mead's much more celebrated "sister lake." Scholars of Glen Canyon and Lake Powell should read this just to better familiarize themselves with this dam and this reservoir that were such precedents for the dams and reservoirs to follow. Scholars of Lake Mead...have probably read it already.
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HOW, WONDERED Mrs. D. L. Carmody, could mere man ever attempt to master the "strange mountains, that oily river, those masses of black rock, those deep crevasses... that overwhelming fortress built by nature?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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HOW, WONDERED Mrs. D. L. Carmody, could mere man ever attempt to master the "strange mountains, that oily river, those masses of black rock, those deep crevasses... that overwhelming fortress built by nature?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
desert tortoises Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lake Mead, Colorado River, Lake Mohave, Mojave Desert New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Mysterious Lands: 2 by A. H. Zwinger in Back Matter
- Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression (Twayne's Oral History Series) (No 11) by Andrew J. Dunar in Back Matter
- Flowering Plants (Inquiry Science Series) by Beth Davis in Back Matter
- The Colorado River (Rookie Read-About Geography) by Dale-Marie Bryan in Back Matter
- Flowering Plants of the Lake Mead Region (Popular series - Southwest Parks and Monuments Association ; no. 22) by James S. Holland in Back Matter
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- Lake Mead National Recreation Area: Guide to Boating by Geoffrey Schneider in Front Matter
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