Books by William deBuys

  • Seeing Things Whole
    Seeing Things Whole William deBuys

    Jazz on the river

    Seeing Things Whole

    The Essential John Wesley Powell

    William deBuys

    John Wesley Powell was an American original. He was the last of the nation's great continental explorers and the first of a new breed of public servant: part scientist, part social reformer, part ...

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About the Author

William deBuys is a historian, conservationist, and writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California and River of Traps: a Village Life, for which he was a Pulitzer prize finalist.