Is Cadillac Desert Coming to Texas?
Cadillac Desert by the late Marc Reisner (1948-2000) is an excellent history of vanishing water in the USA southwest. It was among the 100 best books of the 20th century. Reisner’s vocabulary is so advanced that one might be in need of consulting a dictionary while pouring through the book. “Sesquipedalian tergiversation” is another way of describing [...]