River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia

by William D. Layman

Book Overview

Winner of the 2007 Washington State Book Award for General Nonfiction

Finalist in the Western Writers of America 2007 Spur Award competition for the Best Western Nonfiction - Contemporary category

The Columbia River of today bears little resemblance to the river Native peoples and settlers knew in the early twentieth century. Between 1933 and 1984, an unparalleled fervor of engineering transformed much of the river into a series of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295985917
• ISBN13: 9780295985916
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 11.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher