Kayaking alone : nine hundred miles from Idaho's mountains to the Pacific Ocean / Mike Barenti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barenti, Mike.

Series:

Outdoor lives.

Outdoor lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kayaking--Northwest, Pacific.

Kayaking.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Northwest, Pacific.

Nature.

Northwest, Pacific--Description and travel.

Northwest, Pacific.

Barenti, Mike.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kayaking Alone is a narrative of man and nature, one-on-one, but also of man and nature writ large. In the stories of the river guides and rangers, biologists and ranchers, American Indians and dam workers he meets along the way, the rich and complicated life of the river emerges in a striking, often painfully clear panorama. Through his journey, the ecology, history, and politics of Pacific salmon unfold in fascinating detail, and with this firsthand knowledge and experience the reader gains a new and personal sense of the nature that unites and divides us.

Contents:

Sunbeam

Where the Marlboro man might settle

Henry Clay Merritt, on his 158th birthday

Into the wilderness

Watching fish in Riggins

Dragonflies and the plant migration

Into the breach

Locking through with smolt

River of empire

The swallowing monster and the pictograph island

Watching fish at Bonneville Dam

Used up by the wind

Looking back at Cape Disappointment.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-230).

ISBN:

9786611213480

9781281213488

1281213489

9780803216495

0803216491

OCLC:

437200624