Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest

by Melissa L. Sevigny and E.J. Koh

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 undervalued. Mythical River takes the reader on a historical sojourn into the story of the Buenaventura, an imaginary river that led eighteenth- and nineteenth-century explorers, fur trappers, and emigrants astray for seventy-five years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609383931
• ISBN13: 9781609383930
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"