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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)
Blaine Harden
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Description for A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)
Paperback. "Superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill." -Washington Post Book World Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCN; RNF; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 232.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393342567
SKU
V9780393342567
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About Blaine Harden
Blaine Harden, an award-winning journalist, is a contributor to The Economist and a former foreign correspondent for the Washington Post. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Reviews for A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)
"A hard-nosed, clear-eyed, tough-minded dispatch on the sort of contentious subject that is almost always distorted by ideology or obscured by a fog of sentiment . . . . A precise and brave book."
Hal Espen - New York Times Book Review
Hal Espen - New York Times Book Review