A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Rivers
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Author: Blaine Harden ISBN: 9780393344523
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: April 2, 2012
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Blaine Harden
ISBN: 9780393344523
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: April 2, 2012
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

"Superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill." —Washington Post Book World

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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"Superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill." —Washington Post Book World

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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