Rebecca Lawton
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River guide Madeline Kruse wishes she could save the world-or at least her family. With her father MIA in southeast Asia and her ill mother growing weaker searching for him, Maddie escapes into her work. This time she runs to the deep canyons of Utah, where new dramas are unfolding: oil drilling encroaching on wild rivers and threatening water on ranches and farms-everyone's lifeblood. From farmer Chris Sorensen in the town of Junction, Maddie learns...
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Water, the most critical fluid on the planet, is seen as savior, benefactor, and Holy Grail in these fifteen essays on natural and faux oases. Fluvial geologist and former Colorado River guide Rebecca Lawton follows species both human and wild to their watery roots-in warming deserts, near rising Pacific tides, on endangered, tapped-out rivers, and in growing urban ecosystems.
Lawton thoroughly and eloquently explores human attitudes toward water...
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In the Introduction, author Rebecca Lawton writes, "In summer 2016, I emailed readers, writers, and artists daily writing tips, thirty-one short takes on the creative life. Cool Writing Tips, they were called, because the days were hot and we needed relief. The Tips, tiny, digestible bits of advice, are now collected into a small book of guidance.