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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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