A dam shame.(Deep Water)(Book review)

From: Issues in Science and Technology | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Baecher, Gregory B. | Copyright information

Deep Water

by Jacques Leslie. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, 352 pp.

Jacques Leslie is a journalist, and Deep Water has a journalist's style. It reads well and tells a compelling story. The book relates first-person accounts of three protagonists, each of whom is preoccupied with large dam projects. The stories are rich in detail and intended to teach lessons about large projects that are not to be found in the dry reports of development consultan...

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