A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia

A River Lost: The Life and Death of the ColumbiaAfter 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

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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/02/2012
ISBN: 9780393342567
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d