A River Lost - The Life and Death of the Columbia

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Blaine Harden, Harden Blaine
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.2012
• EAN: 9780393342567
• ISBN: 978-0-393-34256-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 270 g
• Illustrations: 7 maps
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; USA, Die Natur: Sachbuch, Umweltwissenschaften, NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Essays, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, Environmental Economics, Pollution & threats to the environment, Environmental Management, United States of America, USA, Pollution and threats to the environment