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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393039366
ISBN-139780393039368
eBay Product ID (ePID)141062
Product Key Features
Book TitleRiver Lost : the Life and Death of the Columbia
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
TopicEnvironmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Civil / Dams & Reservoirs, Environmental Economics, Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, Development / Economic Development, General, Natural Resources
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, Technology & Engineering, Science, Business & Economics
AuthorBlaine Harden
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-038618
TitleLeadingA
Reviews"Harden's bold and well-supported commentary is a welcome addition to the literature of the majestic river." -- Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal333.91/6215/09797
SynopsisAfter a two-decade absence, 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. Harden's hometown, Moses Lake, Washington, could not have existed without massive irrigation schemes. His father, a Depression migrant trained as a welder, helped build dams and later worked at the secret Hanford plutonium plant. Now he and his neighbors, once considered patriots, stand accused of killing the river. As Blaine Harden traveled the Columbia-by barge, car, and sometimes on foot-his past seemed both foreign and familiar. A personal narrative of rediscovery joined a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a once-wild river now tamed to puddled remains. Part history, part memoir, part lament, "this is a brave and precise book," according to the New York Times Book Review. "It must not have been easy for Blaine Harden to find himself turning his journalistic weapons against his own heritage, but he has done the conscience of his homeland a great service.", The story of how well-meaning Americans dammed up the Columbia River in the North-Western United States, to produce cheap electricity and gardens blooming in the desert. This narrative of exploitation records how one of the West's most majestic rivers was sacrificed to economic advance.
LC Classification NumberHC107.A195H37 1996
