My Story as Told by Water

My Story as Told by Water is a powerful and thought-provoking exploration of the rivers that touch our lives, written by acclaimed author David James Duncan.

Through a wide-ranging and contemplative examination of the natural world, Duncan delves into the sacred cultures and fauna that living waters sustain, while also exposing the hollow industrial platitudes that lead to the ruin of publicly owned rivers for private profit.

With a bracing blend of story, logic, science, and comedy, he dissects America's anachronistic federal mining policy and the devastating cyanide technology to which it has led.

As an advocate for the bankrupted fishing towns, Native tribes, and unraveling web of life of the Pacific Northwest, Duncan lays bare our biological and religious obligation to breach four of the Columbia and the Snake rivers' 221 massive dams to save wild salmon.

Yet even in the face of such dark explorations, Duncan centers his work in the joys, gratitude, and wonder that walking rivers, rod in hand, provides him.

This is a must-read for anyone who has ever been moved by the power of nature, or who seeks to understand the vital connections between our water-filled bodies and this water-covered planet.