{"product_id":"a-river-lost-blaine-harden-9780393316902","title":"A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia","description":"After a two-decade absence, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Harden's hometown, Moses Lake, Washington, could not have existed without massive irrigation schemes. His father, a Depression migrant trained as a welder, helped build dams and later worked at the secret Hanford plutonium plant. Now he and his neighbors, once considered patriots, stand accused of killing the river.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As Blaine Harden traveled the Columbia-by barge, car, and sometimes on foot-his past seemed both foreign and familiar. A personal narrative of rediscovery joined a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a once-wild river now tamed to puddled remains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part history, part memoir, part lament, \"this is a brave and precise book,\" according to the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. \"It must not have been easy for Blaine Harden to find himself turning his journalistic weapons against his own heritage, but he has done the conscience of his homeland a great service.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Blaine Harden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393316904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393316902\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.19h x 5.48w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/1998 pg. 36","brand":"Blaine Harden","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48457674195199,"sku":"9780393316902","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_31e1e0da-80d6-48a3-a0c5-fadc4d1cd838.jpg?v=1777400410","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-river-lost-blaine-harden-9780393316902","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}