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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia

A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia

Harden, Blaine

Paperback

Environmental StudiesNature Writing

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 0393342565
ISBN13: 9780393342567
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Apr 2 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
After two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river. To explore the Columbia River and befriend those who collaborated in its destruction, he traveled on a monstrous freight barge sailing west from Idaho to the Grand Coulee Dam, the site of the river's harnessing for the sake of jobs, electricity, and irrigation. A River Lost is a searing personal narrative of rediscovery joined with a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a once-wild river. Updated throughout, this edition features a new foreword and afterword.

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