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Title: A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia by Blaine Harden ISBN: 0-393-31690-4 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Readable and thought-provoking
Comment: Although the author probably is personally opposed to the dams on the Columbia, his vivid and respectful profiles of the different users of the river (the slackwater barge operator, the Indian tribe that lost its source of food when the river was dammed, the irrigation farmer, the windsurfing yuppie, the father and son who work on the Hanford cleanup) make us understand that no matter how this tricky issue is resolved, there will be a human cost. His recollection of growing up in Moses Lake, a town which owes its prosperity to the dams, adds even more credibility to his account.
Harden's device of telling the story in stages, as a trip down the river, is unobtrusive and keeps things interesting. This book will make you think and it will also treat you to some gorgeous descriptions of the Columbia.
Rating: 4
Summary: An eye opener.
Comment: I grew up in the Tri-Cities and spent the first 19 years of my life living just blocks away from the Columbia River and there was a lot of information told in this book that I never knew. Harden does a wonderful job of relating the history of the Columbia River and the effects that the many dams built on the river had on the land, the people, the nation, and the economy. I thoroughly enjoyed his story and felt he handled well the many issues important to preservationists, politicians, and farmers.
I recommend this to anyone who lives in the state of Washington and is interested in man's permanent effects on this land.
Rating: 5
Summary: So much good information
Comment: A full and complete modern history of the Columbia River. At times sad, always intriging. Harden has done an excellent job of combining interviews with research that makes an excellent read.
Highly recommmended.
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Title: Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics by Charles Davis ISBN: 0813337682 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
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Title: Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River by William Dietrich ISBN: 0295975466 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Dam Politics: Restoring America's Rivers (American Governance and Public Policy) by William R. Lowry ISBN: 0878403906 Publisher: Georgetown University Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Salmon Without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis by Jim Lichatowich ISBN: 1559633611 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters by Robert Jerome Glennon ISBN: 1559632232 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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