Northwest Passage, The Great Columbia River

By William Dietrich. This book views the Columbia River through a succession of different lenses. It is a blend of natural history (in accounts of the Columbia’s fish and geology); of human history (in it’s appreciation of the NW Native legacies and immigrant dreams); and of political history (in it’s treatment of mass movements, partisan promises and the deluge of socioeconomic forces says the Washington Post Book World.