Superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill (The Washington Post Book World), this account of Harden\'s journey down the Columbia River--part history, part memoir, part lament--presents a 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 now tamed to puddled remains.
Updated throughout, this edition features a new foreword and afterword..
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.
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.
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.
Superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill (The Washington Post Book World), this account of Harden\'s journey down the Columbia River--part history, part memoir, part lament--presents a 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 now tamed to puddled remains
