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(More customer reviews)I've read the first 18% of this book on my Kindle and I can't say enough positive things about the book. I expected the book to be a simple recounting of a paddle down the Colorado River and instead I'm getting a fascinating history lesson on Western states water law and an abreviated bio on the author's paddle mates and interviewees. Having spent a relished year in Breckenridge as a fifth grader in 1979, I have a romanticized view of Colorado that is being brought fast forward to the modern and unsustainable Colorado of 2009. Having spent a week touring from Denver to Lake Powell last summer, I have seen in person the bathtub ring of lowered water levels. This book is helping me understand that they might be permanent.
I'll give an update when I finish the book.
Oh, and I do wish there were pictures. I don't know if there are pictures somewhere in the book because I can't fan the pages of a Kindle book looking for them, but there ought to be a picture on every page. I have seen none yet. I am using Microsoft Streets and Trips and Google Earth on my laptop to see where the author is at any point in the book. Street View is very helpful to get an idea of the topography.
I think this book would be great for parents to share with their kids while using mapping software and following along on the authors travels.
UPDATE: I've now finished reading the book. I still highly recommend the book. I found a few pictures at the absolute end of my Kindle edition. I highly prefer photos be embedded at the relevant portion of the book. Also, a few places seem to be truncated w/o the end of sentences. Don't know why that happened. I recall only one spelling error where a "there" should have been a "their."
My only complaint with the book is substantive in that the further you get into the book the more obviously one-sided it reads without any effort applied to seeing the other side of the story. It is impossible for me to clarify this statement without spoiling the story for potential readers so I will just say that the author seems to find no value in motorized pleasure boating and misses the point completely that most of the problems with the Colorado running dry are caused by exponential population growth rather than some arbitrarily inappropriate use of water for recreation like building dams.
Simply stunning work product otherwise. Thank you for a great education about the river and water rights. See authors web site for a detailed map not included in Kindle edition and to my recollection not mentioned either until end of book.
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