First published 1996
Blaine Harden travels the thousand miles of the mighty Columbia River, a once-wild waterway now dammed and diverted to serve industrial and agricultural needs. As he retraces his own family's role in building these monumental projects, Harden confronts a troubling legacy: the exploitation of Native Americans, the decimation of endangered salmon, and the nuclear waste that seeps into the river's waters. A story of rediscovery,
Genres: history, nature, 20th-century, environment, non-fiction, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: personal-history, rediscovery
Setting: Columbia River Region
272 pages · Paperback · W. W. Norton & Company
Content warnings: colonialism