WHERE DOES ALL THE RAIN GO?

Bartlett ranges from eroded farmland to humus on a forest floor, from transpiration in trees to minerals in the ocean, from springs and swamps and droughts to the collection and condensation of raindrops in clouds, in a quick catch-all tour of the water cycle. It contains more than the usual ratio of information to words for those who are motivated to keep up -- and who aren't put to sleep by the repetitive, unfocused design of the splotchy, diffuse pictures.