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Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, a New York Times columnist, a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in nonfiction, and the author of seven books, including Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, The Worst Hard Time, which won a National Book Award, and the national mostra'n més bestseller The Big Burn. mostra'n menys

Inclou aquests noms: Timothy Egan, Egan Tomothy

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Data de naixement
1954-11-08
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Llocs de residència
Seattle, Washington, USA
Professions
journalist
Organitzacions
The New York Times
Agent
Carol Mann

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This was published when I was in high school, and has been on my reading to-do list since moving to WA ten years ago. Purchased from Powell's by Mason on our 'Christmas' trip.

This used inscribed paperback copy was just mixed in with regular stock, so I picked it over a signed first edition hardcover that was $50.

These essays feel a little... dated, but they mostly hold up well in their environs. I remember cringing at 'rangerette', and a 30 something backpacker dude describing his backcountry steak and bourbon dinner.

That said, Egan hits all the Washington high notes. Three decades on, we are still struggling with the salmon, but there is talk of actual dam removal along the Columbia, along with the recently freed Elwha. At work, Howard Hanson dam is getting a fish passage that will restore chinook to the Upper Green.

Having seen most of the same routes, I would be happy just sticking it out at La Push, where he closes.
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kcshankd | Hi ha 15 ressenyes més | Mar 17, 2024 |
I knew very little about the dust bowl prior to reading this book and had only a mild interest. Now I feel like I knew people who lived through it and what an amazing thing it was to have lived through it. this book is a great lesson in ecology and a warning if what happens when one fools with Mother Nature.
 
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cspiwak | Hi ha 195 ressenyes més | Mar 6, 2024 |
I recommend book for its well-written account of Edward Curtis's work in documenting the moving story of native Americans through his iconic photographs during the most rapid period of their persecution and cultural assimilation. The story does seem to include reconstructed or recalled conversations in places that raise doubts about the balance between gripping story-telling and historical veracity, and there are too few of Curtis's evocative photographs, which are more often described than displayed. But this is a memorable and important story for everyone of how the lives of individuals and even entire nations are evanescent and too easily misrepresented or forgotten.… (més)
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sfj2 | Hi ha 41 ressenyes més | Mar 4, 2024 |
Garden City Book Club choice
Joey, Joe R, Jean, Ken, Bere, Ann, Len, and Jan at the Joeys’ condo.
The hate group hated Jews, Blacks, Catholics and immigrants. They were endorsed by ministers, judges, police, governors, and senators who threatened those who disagreed or who were among the hated. Madge Oberholtzer who was raped viciously and mistreated for days by the evil leader, DC Stevenson, afterwards gave the testimony on her deathbed which brought the empire down.
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bereanna | Hi ha 14 ressenyes més | Feb 20, 2024 |

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Membres
8,791
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Valoració
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Ressenyes
386
ISBN
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Llengües
3
Preferit
11

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