Dam! Water, Power, Politics and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park (signed)
NY: Pantheon, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to no recipient on the title page: "best wishes, JW Simpson." Uncommon signed. "A vivid account of America's first environmental cause celebre, which illuminates our attitudes toward fundamental questions of growth, development, and our place in nature." Key players in the book of course include John Muir, Theordore Roosevelt, and Gifford Pinchot. Simpson is a professor of architecture and natural resources at Ohio State University and the author also of Yearning for the Land: A Search for the Importance of Place and Visions of Paradise: Glimpses of our Landscape's Legacy. A fine book in fine jacket with a small "autographed" sticker at the upper left of the front panel. Fine / Fine. Item #1869
ISBN: 9780375422317
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