Kayaking Alone: Nine Hundred Miles from Idaho's Mountains to the Pacific Ocean: Outdoor Lives
Autor Mike Barentien Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2014
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780803265189
ISBN-10: 0803265182
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 1 map
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Outdoor Lives
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0803265182
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 1 map
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Outdoor Lives
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Mike Barenti is a writer and journalist who has worked as a reporter for the Yakima Herald-Republic and the Idaho Falls Post Register and has taught English and creative writing at various colleges.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Map
1. Sunbeam
2. Where the Marlboro Man Might Settle
3. Henry Clay Merritt, on His 158th Birthday
4. Into the Wilderness
5. Watching Fish in Riggins
6. Dragonflies and the Plant Migration
7. Into the Breach
8. Locking through with Smolt
9. River of Empire
10. The Swallowing Monster and the Pictograph Island
11. Watching Fish at Bonneville Dam
12. Used Up by the Wind
13. Looking Back at Cape Disappointment
Selected Sources
Map
1. Sunbeam
2. Where the Marlboro Man Might Settle
3. Henry Clay Merritt, on His 158th Birthday
4. Into the Wilderness
5. Watching Fish in Riggins
6. Dragonflies and the Plant Migration
7. Into the Breach
8. Locking through with Smolt
9. River of Empire
10. The Swallowing Monster and the Pictograph Island
11. Watching Fish at Bonneville Dam
12. Used Up by the Wind
13. Looking Back at Cape Disappointment
Selected Sources
Recenzii
“A fresh look at a river system critical to our history and our future. . . . This is a good book about paddling, and an even better book about the salmon, science and politics up the Columbia.”—The Spokesman-Review
"Part travelogue, part history lesson, part ecological meditation, Kayaking Alone is the product of a tough but revealing trip."—Idaho Arts Quarterly
“This book flows from cover to cover like the rivers traveled within its pages, and the story is never the same for long. Barenti takes readers on a ride deep into the personality of the West, shedding light on the culture of the region every time he eddies out.”—Sam Weiss, Paddling Life
“Kayaking Alone provides much more than a chronicle of one man’s quest to find adventure on a great river system…Barenti weaves conversations with the people he meets, farmers, ranchers, river guides, fisheries biologists, native peoples and dam workers, into a narrative revealing the complex interaction among the economy, the environment and the lives of the inhabitants of the lower Snake and Columbia River.”—Stan Miller, OutthereMonthly.com
“This book is a good combination of paddling, river history, and the plight of the salmon on the river of the same name.”—Cascade Currents
"Kayaking Alone turns out to be a meditation on salmon, on western rivers, and on American relations to the natural world. The prose is direct and provoking, and the book's pace moves as smartly as any healthy current—delivering us from landmark to new vista to conclusions with steady force."—Jeffrey McCarthy, Western American Literature