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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated) 🔍
Harden, Blaine W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1st ed., New York, New York State, 1996
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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.
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lgli/eng\_mobilism\1548575__Non-Fiction-General__A River Lost by Blaine Harden\BHarl\River Lost, A - Blaine Harden.epub
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lgrsnf/eng\_mobilism\1548575__Non-Fiction-General__A River Lost by Blaine Harden\BHarl\River Lost, A - Blaine Harden.epub
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nexusstc/A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia/e6c9d91c632d43e13163f9c30471d7f7.epub
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zlib/Earth Sciences/Harden, Blaine/A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia_3324335.epub
备选作者
Blaine Harden
备用出版商
Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Norton Professional Books
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Place of publication not identified, 2012
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United States, United States of America
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New York, United States, 1996
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Reissued 2012, New York, 2012
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Revised and Updated, 2012
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Rev. ed, New York, 2012
备用版本
1st ed, New York, 1997
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lg2082327
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-255) and index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-255) and index.
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<p><b>A River Lost</b> is superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill.&mdash;<b>Washington Post Book World</b></p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>Although shorter than the Mississippi, the Columbia River, on the border between Washington and Oregon, is many times more powerful. Its energy comes from its steepness-it falls twice as far as the Mississippi in half the distance, and is what so attracted government engineers interested in producing hydroelectric power. Numerous dams, including Grand Coulee, larger than any structure ever built in world history, transformed the river into a huge, navigable lake making Lewiston, Idaho, an unlikely seaport. The river was killed more than sixty years ago and was reborn as plumbing. Washington Post journalist Harden goes back to his boyhood home (Moses Lake, Wash.) and examines the changes-sociological, environmental, economic and aesthetic-that the taming of this great river wrought. His wonderful account touches on the destruction of Native American cultures dependent on the river and its salmon, and on the near extinction of the salmon themselves. Also fairly portrayed are the people and industries currently dependent on both the managed river and massive government subsidies: the nuclear industry, commercial barge traffic and desert farmers irrigating with the river's water. Harden provides a sensitive and thoughtful examination of a complex situation. (May)</p>
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This is a book about how well-intentioned Americans dammed up the Columbia, "Great River of the West," fulfilling dreams of cheap electricity and gardens flourishing in the desert. It is also a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a river - once wild - tamed to puddled remains.
Harden's story is a journey of rediscovery. His home town, Moses Lake, Washington, once bone dry, could not have existed without gargantuan irrigation schemes. His father, a Depression migrant trained as a welder, helped build dams - including Grand Coulee - and later worked at the secret Hanford plutonium plant. Now he and his neighbors, who had thought of themselves as patriots, stood accused of killing the river.
As Blaine Harden traveled the thousand miles of the Columbia - by barge, by car, and sometimes on foot - his own past seemed both foreign and familiar. He met rugged individualists (albeit with government subsidies), fervent environmentalists, and Native Americans reduced to consuming canned salmon. He also encountered a newly ascendant political force whose more subtle agenda was to preserve and conserve for its own pleasure and recreation.
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<p><strong>"Superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill." —<em>Washington Post Book World</em></strong></p>
<p>After two decades, <em>Washington Post</em> 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. <em>A River Lost</em> 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.</p>
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WE SAILED WEST from Idaho at sunset on water the color of dark chocolate.
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2017-08-15
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