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A story of a crucial, dwindling natural resource: an invisible ocean of fresh water under the High Plains. The Ogallala Aquifer that lies deep beneath the Great Plains from Texas to Colorado contains enough water to fill Lake Erie nine times! Every year five trillion gallons are pumped out for irrigation, and if (or when) the aquifer goes dry, $20 billion worth of food and fiber grown with that irrigation will disappear. William Ashforth tells the fascinating history of the Ogallala from its formation millions of years ago to glimpses of the future when the Great Plains could return to their Sahara Desert-like past. 1 map

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"There is nothing in contemporary English letters better crafted than this book. . . a beautifully written lyric of things recollected from the past" -Geoffrey Moorhouse, Daily TelegraphCapri, Ischia Procida, Stromboli, Lipari: for nearly a century these islands of legendary beauty proved a magnet for writers, artists, film-makers, political exiles and scintillating conversation.Neruda, Rilke and Gorky, D. H. Lawrence, E. F. Benson, Norman Douglas, Lawrence Durrell, W. H. Auden and Ingrid Bergman: they came to the islands off the south-western coast of Italy seeking creative and personal freedom and left fame and notoriety in their wake. In Reflections on Blue Water Alan Ross reflects on the islands that he first visited in 1948, revisiting them through a lifetime's reading. A brilliant guide and companion, he brings a poet's perception to the glorious land and seascape.

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The best guide to the area, updated every yearGreat walks and drives, plus visits to nature reserves, beaches, lighthouses, markets, and Maya ruinsBest spots for water sports from fly-fishing and deep-sea fishing to jet-skiing, parasailing, and windsurfingWhere to snorkel and scuba dive, plus local dive shopsGreat crafts markets, the liveliest nightlifeWhere to stay and eat, no matter what your budgetHotels, resorts, condos, B&Bs, bungalows, fishing lodgesSmart restaurants, chic cafés, taquerías, pizzeriasFresh, thorough, practical--from writers you can trustCosts, hours, descriptions, and tips by the thousandsAll reviews based on visits by savvy writer-residents21 pages of maps--and dozens of unique featuresImportant Contacts A to Z; Smart Travel Tips; Fodor's Choice; What's Where; Pleasures & Pastimes; don't-miss activities; festivals; background essays; Spanish vocabulary; complete index; and more!

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In this unique anthology, Clint Willis gives readers some of the best sea stories of all time. Included are excerpts from R. H. Dana's classic Two Years Before the Mast, a shipwreck survivor's 74-day ordeal aboard an inflatable life raft; an eyewitness account of the Titanic disaster; a dramatic rescue at sea in a Force-12 storm; a solo circumnavigation of Antarctica, and a one-man cruise through the Roaring Forties. Rough Water delivers page after page of high adventure amid gales, swells, surges, shoals, icebergs, fog banks, sharks, and mutineers.

Clint Willis, the anthologist de l'extrème who brought us High, takes to the brine for a wide-lens collection of tales from the high seas in Rough Water. Much of it aims for the outer reach as portrayed in Sebastian Junger's Perfect Storm. Armchair navigators will thrill to the dangers and codes of honor that intermingle in the surf, as in Robin Knox-Johnston's stiff-upper-lip telling of his solo circumglobal sail: "I was in the lead and stood a slight chance of winning, and I felt that this would be worth giving an eye for, so I carried on." And like many anthologies, this one may draw readers to the full-length versions. Tony Farrington's harrowing account of a rescue in the South Pacific stands on its own, but others, like Steven Callahan's "Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea," beg for a full telling. Not recommended for a pleasure cruise. --Tipton Blish

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Deep Blue is a book about things that go wrong at sea (and under the sea), and what happens when they do. It features the best writing from the literature of shipwrecks, nautical survival, and cannibalism as well as tales of submarine adventure including an excerpt from Peter Maas's The Terrible Hours. In addition to such authors as Neil Hanson and Gary Kinder, Deep Blue includes classic writers like Melville, Conrad, and Crane, perennials such as Patrick O'Brian and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and far-flung, little-known surprises, from free divers in trouble to arctic explorers fatally marooned in the marshes of Siberia.