River Lost

Name: River Lost
Brand: W W NORTON & CO
SKU: 9780393316902
Price: 71.06 RON
Availability: InStock

Life and Death of the Columbia

Autor: Blaine Harden

Limbă:

Legare: Carte broșată

Editura: W W NORTON & CO

Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern în cantități mici

Expediem în 11-15 zile

71.06 lei

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

Informații despre carte

Autor

Blaine Harden

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1998

Pagini

272

EAN

9780393316902

ISBN

0393316904

Enbook ID

04877045

Editura

W W NORTON & CO

Greutate

275

Dimensiuni

140 x 210 x 18

Descriere completă

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.

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

River Lost

Life and Death of the Columbia

Informații despre carte

Descriere completă

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și