Title: Sahara Reclamation/Empoldering of the Mediterranean Sea
Product review: This typographically beautiful text recounts the fabulous history of a major civil engineering concept: a sea-level lowering of the Mediterranean Sea through dam construction (main facility at Strait of Gibraltar) and the irrigation of North Africa's Sahara! Scoffers? See: R.G. Johnson's "Climate Control Requires a Dam at the Strait of Gibraltar" in EOS 78: 277 (8 July 1997). Voigt has done a magnificient job of rounding up maps, illustrations, and photos to form a total history of a macroproject planned circa 1929-52 by a German civilian architect-engineer. The story should fascinate geoscience professionals--especially those currently working on climate change, global change mitigations (geoengineering, macro-engineering). Though in German, it can be understood by the spry of mind!
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