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Life and Death of the Columbia

Автор: Blaine Harden

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: W W NORTON & CO

Наличност: Външен склад в ограничено количество

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This is a book about how well-intentioned Americans dammed up the Columbia, "Great River of the West...

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Автор

Blaine Harden

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1998

страници

272

EAN

9780393316902

ISBN

0393316904

Enbook ID

04877045

Издател

W W NORTON & CO

Теглоt

275

Размери

140 x 210 x 18

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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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