Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An engaging case study of a whole bundle of environmental and social issues (pollution, hydropower politics, Indian rights, resource economics) that should matter to people all over the country."
* New York Times Book Review *
"A wonderful, disturbing, and thought-provoking history of the Columbia River, Northwest Passage is a remarkable book, first of all in its scope and complexity. Here is a fine blend of natural history, of human history, and of political history."
* Washington Post Book World *
Table of ContentsIntroduction to the 2016 Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Picnic in the Coulee
2. The River of Imagination
3. Vagrant and Most Dangerous
4. Beginning and End
5. The Sculpted River
6. Comcomly’s Head
7. In Heathen Lands to Dwell
8. The River That Was
9. Out Here
10. The Inland Empire
11. The Electric Revolution
12. The Biggest Thing on Earth
13. The House of Lies
14. The Salmon Gauntlet
15. The Poisoned River
16. Cloudville
Epilogue
A Columbia River Chronology
Major Dams of the Columbia Basin
Bibliography
Index
