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From bestselling author, long-time former National Geographic Explorer, and anthropologist Wade Davis comes the story of America's Nile: how it once flowed freely and how human intervention has left it near exhaustion, altering the water temperature, volume, local species, and shoreline of the river Theodore Roosevelt once urged us to ""leave it as it is."" Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world's most regulated river drainage, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix, cities that are home to more than 25 million people. For the entire American Southwest, the Colorado is indeed the river of life, which makes it all the more tragic and ironic that by the time it approaches its final destination, it has been reduced to a shadow upon the sand, its delta dry and deserted, its flow a toxic trickle seeping into the sea. Yet despite more than a century of human interference, Davis writes, the splendor of the Colorado lives on in the river's remaining wild rapids, quiet pools, and sweeping canyons. The story of the Colorado River is the human quest for progress and its inevitable effects--and an opportunity to learn from past mistakes and foster the rebirth of America's most iconic waterway.

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Wade Davis is the author of twenty books, including One River, The Wayfinders, and Into the Silence, which won the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top award for literary nonfiction in the English language. Explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society from 1999 to 2013, he is professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an honorary citizen of Colombia. Wade Davis is the author of twenty books, including One River, The Wayfinders, and Into the Silence, which won the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top award for literary nonfiction in the English language. Explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society from 1999 to 2013, he is professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an honorary citizen of Colombia. Wade Davis is the author of twenty books, including One River, The Wayfinders, and Into the Silence, which won the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top award for literary nonfiction in the English language. Explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society from 1999 to 2013, he is professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an honorary citizen of Colombia.

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