The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism
The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism | Rare and modern books | Righter, Robert W.
Rare and modern books
Righter, Robert W.
Oxford University Press,
2005
The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism
The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism | Rare and modern books | Righter, Robert W.
Rare and modern books
Righter, Robert W.
Oxford University Press,
2005
30.00 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 2005
- ISBN
- 0195149475
- Place of printing
- New York
- Author
- Righter, Robert W.
- Publishers
- Oxford University Press
- Size
- 9.5 x 6.5 inches
- Edition
- First Edition
- Keyword
- America, Water Supply, Politics, San Francisco,
- Cover description
- Near Fine
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Very Good
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- True
Description
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine. 303pp. A detailed re-telling of the controversial damning of the Tuolumne River in California to provide much-needed water for San Francisco. It was completed in 1923. This account tells the full story for the first time - an exemplary environmental history. Hardback extremely scarce in the UK.
