The Secret Knowledge of Water,9781570611599

The Secret Knowledge of Water

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ISBN13: 9781570611599
ISBN10: 1570611599
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-02-01
Publisher(s): Sasquatch Books
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Summary

Childs, author of "Crossing Paths" takes on the defining subject of the arid west: water. But his is the search for the secretive water of the desert where flows are hidden, ephemeral, sudden, and violent.

Table of Contents

Introduction---First Waters xi
PART ONE---EPHEMERAL WATER 1(72)
Maps of Water Holes
7(36)
Water That Waits
43(30)
PART TWO---WATER THAT MOVES 73(92)
Seep
85(8)
The Source
93(26)
The Acts of Desert Streams
119(46)
PART THREE---FIERCE WATER 165(100)
The Sacrifice of Children
175(12)
Carrying Away the Land
187(12)
Chubasco
199(12)
Haunted Canyon
211(10)
Flood at Kanab
221(10)
Fear of God
231(18)
Following the Water Down
249(16)
Epilogue---The Arrival 265(10)
Bibliography 275(10)
Index 285

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