The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project

by Vincent Barrett Price and Nell Farrell

Book Overview

Although most people prefer not to think about them, hazardous wastes, munitions testing, radioactive emissions, and a variety of other issues affect the quality of land, water, and air in the Land of Enchantment, as they do all over the world. In this book, veteran New Mexico journalist V. B. Price assembles a vast amount of information on more than fifty years of deterioration of the state's environment, most of it hitherto available only in scattered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826350496
• ISBN13: 9780826350497
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.9"