The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California

The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California

Author Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and b…

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