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Waterborne (Vintage Contemporaries)
Waterborne - Vintage Contemporaries
Author: Bruce Murkoff
When Filius Poe sets out for Boulder City, the country is in the grips of the Great Depression, the Hoover administration in its final days. Filius, a young engineer from Wisconsin with a number of dams under his belt, has secured a job helping to tame the mighty Colorado and hopes the sheer scale of the era's greatest engineering feat will dis...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781400032587
ISBN-10: 140003258X
Publication Date: 2/8/2005
Pages: 416
Rating:
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4.5 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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Fabulous writing and character development and some very interesting descriptions of the period (mid-depression) and construction of Boulder (now Hoover) Dam. The ending was a bit far fetched but not enough to take away from 5 stars. A book the discerning reader should enjoy.


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