Gila: The Life and Death of an American River

(University of New Mexico Press, 2014)

This is a fine and important book, full of graceful, understated passions, and full of a natural history that has, like the river itself, been lost to us—for the time being. Gila is a gift to us from McNamee: of knowledge, insight, and the hard moral truths of our past errors. —Rick Bass

The Gila River has been given a voice, and that voice is Gregory McNamee. We would do well to listen. —Terry Tempest Williams

Important reading for environmentalists. —Publishers Weekly

This beautifully researched and written tome tackles the once mighty Gila River, its origin and its death, and contextualizes with aplomb what killed it and who suffered and what’s next. —"40 Essential Arizona Books," Tucson Weekly