How Long to Read A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)

How Long Does it Take to Read A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 59 minutes to read A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated) by Blaine Harden

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This is a book about how well-intentioned Americans dammed up the Columbia, "Great River of the West," fulfilling dreams of cheap electricity and gardens flourishing in the desert. It is also a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a river - once wild - tamed to puddled remains. Harden's story is a journey of rediscovery. His home town, Moses Lake, Washington, once bone dry, could not have existed without gargantuan irrigation schemes. His father, a Depression migrant trained as a welder, helped build dams - including Grand Coulee - and later worked at the secret Hanford plutonium plant. Now he and his neighbors, who had thought of themselves as patriots, stood accused of killing the river. As Blaine Harden traveled the thousand miles of the Columbia - by barge, by car, and sometimes on foot - his own past seemed both foreign and familiar. He met rugged individualists (albeit with government subsidies), fervent environmentalists, and Native Americans reduced to consuming canned salmon. He also encountered a newly ascendant political force whose more subtle agenda was to preserve and conserve for its own pleasure and recreation.

How long is A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)?

A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated) by Blaine Harden is 289 pages long, and a total of 74,851 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated) aloud.

What Reading Level is A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)?

A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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