River Lost Revised and Updated The Life and Death of the Columbia

Name: River Lost Revised and Updated The Life and Death of the Columbia
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ISBN: 9780393342567

ISBN-10: 0393342565

ISBN-13: 9780393342567

Edition: Revised

Authors: Blaine Harden

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After two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-townbirthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West’smost thoroughly conquered river. To explore the Columbia River and befriendthose who collaborated in its destruction, he traveled on a monstrous freightbarge sailing west from Idaho to the Grand Coulee Dam, the site of the river’sharnessing for the sake of jobs, electricity, and irrigation. A River Lost is a searing personal narrative of rediscovery joinedwith a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, ofnuclear waste, and of a once-wild river. Updated throughout, this editionfeatures a new foreword…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.22" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

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.



Preface to the Revised Edition


Introduction



Slackwater



Better Off Underwater



Machine River



The Biggest Thing on Earth



The Flood



Ditches from Heaven



A Noble Way to Use a River



Wild and Scenic Atomic River



Born with No Hips



Slackwater II



The River Game


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index