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Kayaking Alone

- Nine Hundred Miles from Idaho's Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
Af: Mike Barenti Engelsk Paperback

Kayaking Alone

- Nine Hundred Miles from Idaho's Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
Af: Mike Barenti Engelsk Paperback
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The Columbia and its tributaries are rivers of conflict. Amid pitched battles over the economy, the environment, and the breaching of dams on the lower Snake River, the salmon that have always quickened these rivers are disappearing. On a warm day in late May, Mike Barenti entered the heart of this conflict when he slid a white-water kayak into the headwaters of central Idaho’s Salmon River and started paddling toward the Pacific Ocean. This account of his two-month, nine-hundred-mile solo journey into the world of the Columbia Basin plunges us into the adventure of navigating these troubled waterways.

Kayaking Alone is a narrative of man and nature, one-on-one, but also of man and nature writ large. In the stories of the river guides and rangers, biologists and ranchers, American Indians and dam workers he meets along the way, the rich and complicated life of the river emerges in a striking, often painfully clear panorama. Through his journey, the ecology, history, and politics of Pacific salmon unfold in fascinating detail, and with this firsthand knowledge and experience the reader gains a new and personal sense of the nature that unites and divides us.

 

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The Columbia and its tributaries are rivers of conflict. Amid pitched battles over the economy, the environment, and the breaching of dams on the lower Snake River, the salmon that have always quickened these rivers are disappearing. On a warm day in late May, Mike Barenti entered the heart of this conflict when he slid a white-water kayak into the headwaters of central Idaho’s Salmon River and started paddling toward the Pacific Ocean. This account of his two-month, nine-hundred-mile solo journey into the world of the Columbia Basin plunges us into the adventure of navigating these troubled waterways.

Kayaking Alone is a narrative of man and nature, one-on-one, but also of man and nature writ large. In the stories of the river guides and rangers, biologists and ranchers, American Indians and dam workers he meets along the way, the rich and complicated life of the river emerges in a striking, often painfully clear panorama. Through his journey, the ecology, history, and politics of Pacific salmon unfold in fascinating detail, and with this firsthand knowledge and experience the reader gains a new and personal sense of the nature that unites and divides us.

 

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 248
ISBN-13: 9780803265189
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0803265182
Udg. Dato: 1 dec 2014
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 344mm
Højde: 210mm
Forlag: University of Nebraska Press
Oplagsdato: 1 dec 2014
Forfatter(e): Mike Barenti
Forfatter(e) Mike Barenti


Kategori Kanosport og kajaksport


ISBN-13 9780803265189


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 248


Udgave


Længde 19mm


Bredde 344mm


Højde 210mm


Udg. Dato 1 dec 2014


Oplagsdato 1 dec 2014


Forlag University of Nebraska Press

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