An edition of A river lost (1996)

A river lost

the life and death of the Columbia

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An edition of A river lost (1996)

A river lost

the life and death of the Columbia

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This is a book about how well-intentioned Americans dammed up the Columbia, "Great River of the West," fulfilling dreams of cheap electricity and gardens flourishing in the desert. It is also a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a river - once wild - tamed to puddled remains.

Harden's story is a journey of rediscovery. His home town, Moses Lake, Washington, once bone dry, could not have existed without gargantuan irrigation schemes. His father, a Depression migrant trained as a welder, helped build dams - including Grand Coulee - and later worked at the secret Hanford plutonium plant. Now he and his neighbors, who had thought of themselves as patriots, stood accused of killing the river.

As Blaine Harden traveled the thousand miles of the Columbia - by barge, by car, and sometimes on foot - his own past seemed both foreign and familiar. He met rugged individualists (albeit with government subsidies), fervent environmentalists, and Native Americans reduced to consuming canned salmon. He also encountered a newly ascendant political force whose more subtle agenda was to preserve and conserve for its own pleasure and recreation.

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W.W. Norton
Pages
271

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Cover of: River Lost
River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
2012, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
Cover of: River Lost
River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
2012, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
Cover of: A River Lost
A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
November 1997, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
Cover of: A River Lost
A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
November 1997, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
Cover of: A river lost
A river lost: the life and death of the Columbia
1996, W.W. Norton
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: A riverlost
A riverlost: the life and death of the Columbia
1996, W.W. Norton
in English
Cover of: A river lost
A river lost: the life and death of the Columbia
1996, W.W. Norton

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-255) and index.

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Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
HC107.A195H37 1996, HC107.A195 H37 1996, HC107.A195 H37 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
271 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Number of pages
271

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22118419M
ISBN 10
0393039366
LCCN
95038618
OCLC/WorldCat
792935004, 33078704
Library Thing
91580
Goodreads
2700229

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WE SAILED WEST from Idaho at sunset on water the color of dark chocolate.
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