Random House New Releases - History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa)

David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work by Jack Nisbet

2012-11-06T00:30:00-05:00

David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest
Written by Jack Nisbet

eBook, 208 pages | Sasquatch Books | History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa) | $27.95 | 978-1-57061-830-7 (1-57061-830-5)

During a meteoric career that spanned from 1825 to 1834, David Douglas made the first systematic collections of flora and fauna over many parts of the greater Pacific Northwest. Despite his early death, colleagues in Great Britain attached the Douglas name to more than 80 different species, including the iconic timber tree of the region. David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work is a colorfully illustrated collection of essays that examines various aspects of Douglas's career, demonstrating the connections between his work in the Pacific Northwest of the 19th century and the place we know today. From the Columbia River's perilous bar to luminous blooms of mountain wildflowers; from ever-changing frontiers of technology to the quiet seasonal rhythms of tribal families gathering roots, these essays collapse time to shed light on people and landscapes.

This volume is the companion book to a major museum exhibit about Douglas's Pacific Northwest travels that will open at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane in September 2012.

From the Hardcover edition.

David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work by Jack Nisbet

2012-11-06T00:30:00-05:00

David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest
Written by Jack Nisbet

Hardcover, 208 pages | Sasquatch Books | History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa) | $27.95 | 978-1-57061-829-1 (1-57061-829-1)

New Land, North of the Columbia by Lorraine Mcconaghy

2011-10-25T00:30:00-05:00

New Land, North of the Columbia Historic Documents That Tell the Story of Washington State from Territory to Today
Written by Lorraine Mcconaghy

Hardcover, 160 pages | Sasquatch Books | History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa); History - America (North, Central, South, West Indies); History - United States | $40.00 | 978-1-57061-693-8 (1-57061-693-0)

Sources of the River, 2nd Edition by Ray Troll

2011-05-03T00:30:00-05:00

Sources of the River, 2nd Edition The Artwork of Ray Troll
Written by Ray Troll

eBook, 288 pages | Sasquatch Books | History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa) | $16.95 | 978-1-57061-817-8 (1-57061-817-8)

In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the what is now British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Thompson was the first person to chart the entire route of the Columbia river, and his wilderness expeditions have become the stuff of legend. Jack Nisbet tracks the explorer across the content, interweaving his own observations with Thompson’s historical writings. The result is a fascinating story of two men discovering the Northwest territory almost two hundred years apart.

The Collector by Jack Nisbet

2010-08-03T00:30:00-05:00

The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
Written by Jack Nisbet

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Sasquatch Books | History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa) | $16.95 | 978-1-57061-667-9 (1-57061-667-1)

Jack Nisbet first told the story of British explorer David Thompson, who mapped the Columbia River, in his acclaimed book Sources of the River, which set the standard for research and narrative biography for the region. Now Nisbet turns his attention to David Douglas, the premier botanical explorer in the Pacific Northwest and throughout other areas of western North America. Douglas's discoveries include hundreds of western plants--most notably the Douglas Fir. The Collector tracks Douglas's fascinating history, from his humble birth in Scotland in 1799 to his botanical training under the famed William Jackson Hooker, and details his adventures in North America discovering exotic new plants for the English and European market. The book takes readers along on Douglas's journeys into a literal brave new world of then-obscure realms from Puget Sound to the Sandwich Islands. In telling Douglas's story, Nisbet evokes a lost world of early exploration, pristine nature, ambition, and cultural and class conflict with surprisingly modern resonances.

Bretz's Flood by John Soennichsen

2010-06-01T00:30:00-05:00

Bretz's Flood The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood
Written by John Soennichsen

eBook, 304 pages | Sasquatch Books | History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa) | $16.95 | 978-1-57061-702-7 (1-57061-702-3)

The land between Idaho and the Cascade Mountains is characterized by gullies, coulees, and deserts--in geologic terms, it is a wholly unique place on the earth. Legendary geologist J Harlen Bretz, starting in the 1920s, was the first to explore the area. Bretz, a former science teacher at Franklin High School in Seattle and then a professor at the University of Washington and later the University of Chicago, eventually formed the theory that the land was scoured in a virtual instant by a massive flood. His original thinking was rewarded with various forms of public and academic humiliation. In the mid-twentieth century, his theory sounded a bit too much like the biblical flood, and the scientific world wanting nothing to do with that sort of idea. (Ironically, Bretz was an avowed atheist, so this was hardly his inspiration.) Bretz's Flood tells the dramatic story of this scientific maverick-how he came to study the region, his radical theory that a huge flood created it, and how the mainstream geologic community campaigned to derail him from pursuing an idea that satellite photos would confirm decades later.

The Collector by Jack Nisbet

2009-12-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
Written by Jack Nisbet

eBook, 304 pages | Sasquatch Books | History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa) | $16.95 | 978-1-57061-725-6 (1-57061-725-2)

Bretz's Flood by John Soennichsen

2009-09-15T00:30:00-05:00

Bretz's Flood The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood
Written by John Soennichsen

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Sasquatch Books | History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa) | $16.95 | 978-1-57061-631-0 (1-57061-631-0)

Sources of the River, 2nd Edition by Jack Nisbet

2007-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Sources of the River, 2nd Edition Tracking David Thompson Across North America
Written by Jack Nisbet

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Sasquatch Books | History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa) | $16.95 | 978-1-57061-522-1 (1-57061-522-5)

Visible Bones by Jack Nisbet

2007-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Visible Bones
Written by Jack Nisbet

Trade Paperback, 256 pages | Sasquatch Books | History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa) | $16.95 | 978-1-57061-524-5 (1-57061-524-1)

How can you know a place? Historian and naturalist Jack Nisbet—author of Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America—looks to the relics of a region to connect the present moment to the distant past. In the vast Western territory defined by the Columbia River, Nisbet tracks the stories and meaning of relics such as a trilobite fossil that points to a tropical prehistoric ecology; the nearly extinct California condor, once the largest thing in the skies, described with amazement by Meriwether Lewis; the indelible stain of the smallpox pandemic that overcame the native peoples of the West; a rare and socially potent strain of indigenous wild tobacco that reveals the presence of vestigial Indian practices; and the remains of one Jaco Finlay, a mixed-blood trapper and scout who seems to have been everywhere in the region two hundred years ago. All of these relics are the visible bones that show how past is present in the Columbia River Country. Together the stories these bones tell lays out a wholly original, hybrid history that connects nature with human endeavor, geography with the passage of time—all contribute to the biography of a place. The arrow of time travels in one direction, and this is usually how history is told: beginning to end. But Jack Nisbet is up to something else: journeys across time through a place, knitting past to present and back again to assemble a portrait of the land that marked the culmination of Lewis & Clark’s expedition, that saw the sad end of the Indian Wars with the flight of Chief Joseph, that has offered up fossil proof of mammoth species long extinct. In this western territory, the storied past is much in evidence.

Random House New Releases - History - United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa)

David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work by Jack Nisbet

David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific NorthwestWritten by Jack Nisbet

David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work by Jack Nisbet

David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific NorthwestWritten by Jack Nisbet

New Land, North of the Columbia by Lorraine Mcconaghy

New Land, North of the Columbia Historic Documents That Tell the Story of Washington State from Territory to TodayWritten by Lorraine Mcconaghy

Sources of the River, 2nd Edition by Ray Troll

Sources of the River, 2nd Edition The Artwork of Ray TrollWritten by Ray Troll

The Collector by Jack Nisbet

The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of the NorthwestWritten by Jack Nisbet

Bretz's Flood by John Soennichsen

Bretz's Flood The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest FloodWritten by John Soennichsen

The Collector by Jack Nisbet

The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of the NorthwestWritten by Jack Nisbet

Bretz's Flood by John Soennichsen

Bretz's Flood The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest FloodWritten by John Soennichsen

Sources of the River, 2nd Edition by Jack Nisbet

Sources of the River, 2nd Edition Tracking David Thompson Across North AmericaWritten by Jack Nisbet

Visible Bones by Jack Nisbet

Visible Bones Written by Jack Nisbet

David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest
Written by Jack Nisbet

David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest
Written by Jack Nisbet

New Land, North of the Columbia Historic Documents That Tell the Story of Washington State from Territory to Today
Written by Lorraine Mcconaghy

Sources of the River, 2nd Edition The Artwork of Ray Troll
Written by Ray Troll

The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
Written by Jack Nisbet

Bretz's Flood The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood
Written by John Soennichsen

The Collector David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
Written by Jack Nisbet

Bretz's Flood The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood
Written by John Soennichsen

Sources of the River, 2nd Edition Tracking David Thompson Across North America
Written by Jack Nisbet

Visible Bones
Written by Jack Nisbet