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

by Harden, Blaine

• ISBN13: 9780393342567
• ISBN10: 0393342565
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-02
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

After two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-townbirthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West'smost thoroughly conquered river. To explore the Columbia River and befriendthose who collaborated in its destruction, he traveled on a monstrous freightbarge sailing west from Idaho to the Grand Coulee Dam, the site of the river'sharnessing for the sake of jobs, electricity, and irrigation. A River Lost is a searing personal narrative of rediscovery joinedwith a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, ofnuclear waste, and of a once-wild river. Updated throughout, this editionfeatures a new foreword and afterword.

Author Biography

Blaine Harden, an award-winning journalist and author, is a reporter for PBS's Frontline, a contributor to the Economist, and a former foreign correspondent for the Washington Post. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition	p. 13
Introduction	p. 19
Slackwater	p. 29
Better Off Underwater	p. 50
Machine River	p. 65
The Biggest Thing on Earth	p. 83
The Flood	p. 108
Ditches from Heaven	p. 127
A Noble Way to Use a River	p. 145
Wild and Scenic Atomic River	p. 157
Born with No Hips	p. 187
Slackwater II	p. 198
The River Game	p. 227
Epilogue	p. 254
Notes	p. 261
Acknowledgments	p. 273
Index	p. 275
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