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John Fahey fell in love with Lake Chelan at an early age and became convinced it is the world's greatest lake. As an adult, he set out to prove it.

"River of Memory honors a place and time now gone from view. It restores an unfettered Columbia through more than ninety historical photographs that capture the river as it once appeared. This visual record is complemented with the words of early explorers, surveyors, and naturalists who wrote about specific places along the river and with new works by contemporary American and Canadian writers and poets."--Jacket.

The mighty Columbia River rises among snow-capped peaks of British Columbia, follows a tortuous path across the dramatic Coulee country of eastern Washington, then cuts a magnificent gorge along the northern boundary of Oregon as it flows to the Pacific shore. It is a river of legend, a river of history, a river of commerce and industry, and always, a river of breathtaking beauty. Writer/photographer Earl Roberge has lived in the Columbia Basin for...

"The story of the land in the Northwest flows from the cataclysmic ice-age floods. So it only follows that the stories of the people in this terrain are inextricably linked to the aftereffects of that great deluge. These are the genesis stories of a region. Included are the controversy over the provenance and ownership of a meteor that fell to earth in rural Oregon; the mystery of the aurora borealis as observed by 18th-century explorer David Thompson;...

Historical diaries and contemporary natural history writing describe the beauty and wildness of the landscape of the eastern slope of the North Cascades.