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Mythical River Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the ~ “Mythical River is a wellresearched and timely exploration of the geology ecology history practices and politics of water in the American Southwest Melissa Sevigny cuts through ‘the mirage’ in how people view this arid landscape a landscape remapped by the twentiethcentury search for new water and gets real about whatit means to live in such a place
Mythical River Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the ~ In Mythical River Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest author Melissa L Sevigny has written a scientific survey couched in a memoir wrapped in a parable ending with an ethical challenge The el Rio de San Buenaventura is the mythical river of the title
Mythical River Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the ~ Mythical Rivertakes the reader on a historical sojourn into the story of the Buenaventura an imaginary river that led eighteenth and nineteenthcentury explorers fur trappers and emigrants astray for seventyfive years This mythical river becomes a metaphor for our modernday attempts to supply water to a growing population in the Colorado River Basin
Mythical River Chasing The Mirage Of New Water In The ~ In a lyrical mix of natural science history and memoir Melissa L Sevigny ponders what it means to make a home in the American Southwest at a time when its most essential resource water is overexploited and l River Mythical River takes the reader on a historical sojourn into the story of the Buenaventura an imaginary river that led eighteenth and nineteenthcentury explorers fur trappers and emigrants astray for seventyfive years
Mythical River Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the ~ Mythical River Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest by Melissa Sevigny the Southwest is running out of water and rain does not follow the plow The mythical Buenaventura
Mythical River Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the ~ Melissa Sevigny is KNAUs science reporter and the author of the newly released book Mythical River Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest She has a book signing at Barefoot Cowgirl Books in Flagstaff Saturday June 11th from 13pm
Mythical River Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the ~ Mythical River Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest by Melissa L Sevigny University of Iowa Press 244 pages 2016 In her new book Mythical River Melissa L Sevigny takes her readers on a written voyage down a river that exists only in the minds of conquistadors and
Project MUSE Mythical River Chasing the Mirage of New ~ Sevigny structures Mythical River around the illusion of water as manifested in the idea of the Río de San Buenaventura—a river eighteenthcentury Spanish explorers believed flowed from the edge of the Rocky Mountains from what is now the western edge of Dinosaur National Monument west across the Great Basin to the Pacific Ocean As the author notes by the 1840s the false promise of the Buenaventura had now marred maps of the American Southwest for nearly seven decades 191
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