A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia by Blaine Harden
English | 2012 | ASIN: B007HXFIBY | 288 pages | ePUB | 2.1 MB
English | 2012 | ASIN: B007HXFIBY | 288 pages | ePUB | 2.1 MB
After 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.
A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
