Voyage of a summer sun : canoeing the Columbia River

Cody, Robin 1943- (Author). Cody, Heidi. (Added Author).

Summary: The author describes his three month adventure on the Columbia River.

Record details

ISBN: 1570610835
ISBN: 9781570610837
Physical Description: print
301 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: Seattle : Sasquatch Books, 1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1995.

Maps and illustrations by Heidi Cody.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: Where things come from -- Headwaters to Golden: the river awakening -- Golden to Redgrave Canyon: bear-scare and water-fright -- Kinbasket Lake: he saw what was coming -- Mica to Revelstoke: loon, rain, and oompah music -- Arrow Lake: this is why you do it -- Free-flowing river: keep the wet side down -- Lake Roosevelt: we were the people -- Grand Coulee: a man has no idea -- Change a big river: rattlesnake, milfoil, and carp -- 'Nchiawana, Columbia: we live in two worlds -- Hanford: nobody knew what we were making -- Turning for home: this is our mother, this country -- East Gorge: still in the Brown country -- Celilo: she who watches -- The urban waterways: to a clearing in the wilderness -- The pull of tide: so big and soon.