A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and

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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)

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

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 Westâ€™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 riverâ€™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.

A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)