River Lost

Name: River Lost
Brand: W W NORTON & CO
SKU: 9780393316902
Price: 4976 HUF
Availability: InStock

Life and Death of the Columbia

Szerző: Blaine Harden

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: W W NORTON & CO

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten alacsony példányszámban

Küldés 11-15 napon belül

4 976 Ft

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

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Blaine Harden

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1998

oldal

272

EAN

9780393316902

ISBN

0393316904

Enbook ID

04877045

Kiadó

W W NORTON & CO

Súly

275

Méretek

140 x 210 x 18

Teljes leírás

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.

Érdekelheti

Azok a vásárlók, akik ezt a könyvet megvásárolták, a következőket is megvásárolták

Leggyakrabban keresett

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Termékek

Termékek

Leggyakrabban keresett

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Termékek

Termékek

River Lost

Life and Death of the Columbia

Információk a könyvről

Teljes leírás

Érdekelheti

Azok a vásárlók, akik ezt a könyvet megvásárolták, a következőket is megvásárolták