William Dietrich

Northwest Passage

The Great Columbia River

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Part history, part sociology, part travelogue, and part journalistic account of a contemporary crisis, this sweeping portrait of the powerful, beautiful Columbia River explores how people changed the river and were in turn changed by it. 3 maps; index.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780295999326
• ISBN-10: 0295999322
• Artikelnr.: 44825640

Autorenporträt

William Dietrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for his coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, is the author of Natural Grace: The Charm, Wonder, and Lessons of Pacific Northwest Animals and Plants, The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest, and popular fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the 2016 Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Picnic in the Coulee
2. The River of Imagination
3. Vagrant and Most Dangerous
4. Beginning and End
5. The Sculpted River
6. Comcomly's Head
7. In Heathen Lands to Dwell
8. The River That Was
9. Out Here
10. The Inland Empire
11. The Electric Revolution
12. The Biggest Thing on Earth
13. The House of Lies
14. The Salmon Gauntlet
15. The Poisoned River
16. Cloudville
Epilogue
A Columbia River Chronology
Major Dams of the Columbia Basin
Bibliography
Index