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4.0 out of 5 stars
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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Lake Mead National Recreation Area by Rose Houk (Paperback - Dec. 1997)
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