{"product_id":"salt-lakes-an-unnatural-history-9781324089025","title":"Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History","description":"\u003cp\u003eMore than a hundred salt lakes dot Earth's surface, most of them hidden away in remote desert valleys. But today nearly all of them are at risk of drying up. Their death is a harbinger of rising sea levels, life-threatening dust storms, and environmental collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriter and geographer Caroline Tracey didn't know this when she began crossing paths with salt lakes during her early twenties. From the Great Salt Lake to the Aral Sea, across the American West and around the world, the unusual beauty of these shimmering, uncanny bodies of water captured her imagination. In \u003cem\u003eSalt Lakes\u003c\/em\u003e, Tracey travels across four continents to seek out and describe these extraordinary vanishing lakes and the people dedicated to saving them. She takes readers along on her adventures by train in Kazakhstan and on an inflatable raft in California, on her encounter with Mormon environmentalists in Utah and an Australian Aboriginal painter seeking to capture her country for her children. In evocative prose, she traces shorebirds' seasonal migration and the history of water law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Tracey chronicles the decline of the lakes, she also experiences dramatic changes in her own life and conception of self. Running parallel to Tracey's environmental journey is an intimate, human one: her story of finding queer love and building a home in a world fast being remade by ecological crises. By the end of \u003cem\u003eSalt Lakes\u003c\/em\u003e, she shows us how seeing the environment through a queer lens could help save our water system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exquisite blend of travel writing, memoir, and reportage, \u003cem\u003eSalt Lakes\u003c\/em\u003e is an inspiring call to fight for all that is fragile in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Caroline Tracey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324089025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTracey, Caroline:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eCaroline Tracey\u003c\/strong\u003e holds a PhD in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work in English and in Spanish has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. Originally from Colorado, she lives in Tucson, Arizona.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Caroline Tracey \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47754050142365,"sku":"9781324089025","price":50.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_786ab269-e714-45ad-82cb-49e5e809ebb9.jpg?v=1774332063","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/salt-lakes-an-unnatural-history-9781324089025","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}