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I waded into the Run of the River all unsuspecting. When I emerged, waterlogged, 205 pages later, I felt I had sojourned in a surrealistic world inhabited by beings entirely removed from reality.
This is a book not as much about eleven B.C. rivers as about protest - a book for the fanatical fisherman and the career environmentalist. The inhabitants of the world of the book are mainly male, see our habitat as a vast wilderness that should be kept for ever so, in order that they can fish, white - water raft, watch fish and birds, etc. The real world of those who work in B.C., and pay taxes, of the logging, mining, pulp and paper companies, the commercial fishing industry, not to mention the ranchers, is viewed not as an economic necessity, but as a threat to this sacred and hallowed recreation. The government which created the W.A.C. Bennett dam, which brought electricity to thousands, jobs to thousands, is labelled...