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Hetch Hetchy
Undoing a Great American Mistake
by Kenneth Brower

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• Author: Kenneth Brower
• Language: english
• Release date: August 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781597142281 (159714228X)
• Publisher: Heyday Books
• Format: paperback, 118 pages

About The Book

In the 1920’s the thirsty city of San Francisco reached deep into Yosemite National Park to build the O’Shaughnessy Dam on the Tuolumne River, diverting one-third of the river’s water and flooding the Hetch Hetchy Valley, said at the time to be as magnificent as Yosemite Valley itself. The water that flows through tunnels and pipelines into the households of San Francisco is steeped in the resulting heated debates, which began over a century ago and burn to this day. Examining the stunning engineering feat that the dam represented to some when it was constructed, as well as the heartbreak of others, such as John Muir, over the loss of a valley as radiant as any in Yosemite National Park, award-winning nature writer Kenneth Brower’s Hetch Hetchy: Undoing a Great American Mistake is a tribute to the men and women whose lives were shaped by those waters, and the wild landscape that still exists beneath them.

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