Salt Dreams: Land & Water in Low-Down California
Author: William deBuys, Joan Myers
List Price: $39.95
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ISBN: 0826321267
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press (December, 1999)
Sales Rank: 151,121
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
A Tale of a Magnificent Disaster
I visited the Salton Sea to photograph birds and found it impossible to describe, telling friends they had to go there themselves to experience the place and the people. Now I tell them to read this book. From the creation of the Sea to the creation of Salvation Mountain, deBuys tells it's colorful history in a prose that fills you with the sounds and smells and people of the Sea and Imperial Valley. Anyone with an interest in man's unlimited folly, vision, corruption, and the coming environmental train-wreck in southern California needs to read this book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
What Every Member of Congress Should Know...
Bravo! Salt Dreams is the first of its kind to wrap up all of the issues surrounding the Salton Sea and Colorado River delta in one volume. The best since Cadillac Desert in its cinematic portrayal of a complicated host of issues. Awesome writing on the heroism of US Fish and Wildlife staff. My only criticism is that Congressman George Brown is slighted; Sonny Bono often called him "Mr. Salton Sea". Certainly, a book Mr. Brown would have loved.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Reclamation/Folly in the Desert
Superlative read revealing the vast natural beauty of the desert and its inhabitants and man's irreversable errors in judging it as a fallen Eden. Together with Cadillac Desert it ranks as a southwest water classic. Beautiful writing and stunning photographs.
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