Kayaking Alone – Nine Hundred Miles from Idaho`s Mountains to the Pacific Ocean

Kayaking AloneNine Hundred Miles from Idaho's Mountains to the Pacific Ocean\nAuthor(s): Mike Barenti\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803213821, 978-0803213821\nSynopsis\nThe 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 [url] 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 range.