Kayaking alone [[electronic resource] ] : nine hundred miles from Idaho's mountains to the Pacific Ocean / / Mike Barenti

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778231503321
• Autore: Barenti Mike
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-281-21348-9; 9786611213480; 0-8032-1649-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Collana: Outdoor lives
• Disciplina: 797.122/4
• Soggetti: Kayaking - Northwest, Pacific; Nature - Effect of human beings on - Northwest, Pacific; Northwest, Pacific Description and travel
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-230).
• Nota di contenuto: Sunbeam -- Where the Marlboro man might settle -- Henry Clay Merritt, on his 158th birthday -- Into the wilderness -- Watching fish in Riggins -- Dragonflies and the plant migration -- Into the breach -- Locking through with smolt -- River of empire -- The swallowing monster and the pictograph island -- Watching fish at Bonneville Dam -- Used up by the wind -- Looking back at Cape Disappointment.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.