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A river lost. : the life and death of the Columbia / Blaine Harden.
Lippincott Library HC107.A195 H37 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harden, Blaine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--Environmental aspects--Columbia River.
- Economic development.
- Economic development--Social aspects--Columbia River.
- Water resources development--Columbia River--History.
- Water resources development.
- Environmental degradation--Columbia River.
- Environmental degradation.
- History.
- Economic development--Social aspects.
- Economic development--Environmental aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages : maps ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [Revised edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2012.
- Summary:
- Taking readers inside the endless wars over the Columbia-a 1,214-mile-long river that snakes out of the Canadian Rockies and flows west into the Pacific-A River Lost explores the massive human and environmental consequences of damming the mightiest river in the American West. This revised edition features a new preface and has been updated throughout. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Slackwater
- Better off underwater
- Machine river
- The biggest thing on earth
- The flood
- Ditches from heaven
- A noble way to use a river
- Wild and scenic Atomic River
- Born with no hips
- Slackwater II
- The river game.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393342567
- 0393342565
- OCLC:
- 792935004
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