Kayaking Alone : Nine Hundred Miles from Idaho's Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
by
Mike Barenti
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Outdoor Lives
ISBN-10
0803265182
ISBN-13
9780803265189
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Imprint
University of Nebraska Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 1st, 2014
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
304 grams
Dimensions
21.00 x 34.40 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Canoeing & kayaking
Ksh 2,350.00
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The Columbia and its tributaries are rivers of conflict. Amid pitched battles over the economy, the environment, and breaching 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 whitewater 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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