{"product_id":"mining-california-andrew-c-isenberg-9780809069323","title":"Mining California: An Ecological History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn environmental History of California during the Gold Rush\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile--rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot since William Cronon's\u003ci\u003e Nature's Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight--\"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe\"--to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew C. Isenberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0809069326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809069323\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Andrew C. Isenberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980575965439,"sku":"9780809069323","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c750bdab-817d-47d1-b142-d75317c2f327.jpg?v=1683250686","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mining-california-andrew-c-isenberg-9780809069323","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}