A River Lost

The Life and Death of the Columbia

Blaine Harden

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WW Norton & Co
11 May 2012

Environmental economics; Management of land & natural resources; Pollution & threats to the environment

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.

By: Blaine Harden
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Revised and Updated
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 264g
ISBN: 9780393342567
ISBN 10: 0393342565
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 11 May 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia

A hard-nosed, clear-eyed, tough-minded dispatch on the sort of contentious subject that is almost always distorted by ideology or obscured by a fog of sentiment ... A precise and brave book. -- Hal Espen