Greetings from the Salton Sea : folly and intervention in the southern California landscape, 1905-2005 / Kim Stringfellow.

2nd ed.

Chicago : The Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, ©2011.

141 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

BEIN Zc72 2011st: Paperbound.

The Salton Sea is a man-made catastrophe, redolent with the smell of algae and decomposing fish. Nevertheless, the lake's vast, placid expanses continue to attract birdwatchers, tourists and artists. In Greetings from the Salton Sea, photographer Kim Stringfellow explores the history of California's largest lake from its disastrous beginnings--the "sea" was formed when Colorado River levees broke and spilled into a depression 280 feet below sea level--to its heyday as a desert paradise in the 1950s and its current state as an environmental battleground.

English

March 26, 2018

Includes bibliographical references.

History.