As one who was raised alongside, and whose family drew our livelihood from, the lower Columbia, I have a special place in my heart for Oregon’s rivers. For me, they are channels through which the ecological, spiritual, and economic life blood of my home state flows.
Tim Palmer seems to understand just how I feel about Oregon’s rivers, and from what I read in his highly informative 2014 book Field Guide to Oregon Rivers, I suspect he feels much the same way himself.
It’s a suspicion that recently found additional support in the form of his recently published photographic and essay collection Rivers of Oregon. I have only thus far given the book an initial thumb-through, but from the images alone I have every reason to believe that this will be a book that stir the soul as well as enlighten the mind.
