"Visionary. White has posed a brilliant new model for environmental history."

--Howard R. Lamar, Yale University

"A crystalline gem of a book. White makes the transformation of the Columbia River basin into a compelling microhistory of the encounter between the forces of technology and nature in America."

--Leo Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Submitted by Publisher, February, 2002

In a pioneering study of environmental history and a history of the Pacific Northwest, Richard White explores the complicated relationship between nature and mankind along the Columbia River.