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Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest By Bruce McCune and Linda Geiser, 1997. ISBN 0-87071-394-9. Paperback, $29.95. The first comprehensive guide to Northwest Macrolichens, featuring color photographs by Sylvia and Stephen Sharnoff. |
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A Majority of Scoundrels: An Informal History of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company Don Berry Introduction by Stephen Dow Beckham 2006. ISBN-10 0-87071-089-3. ISBN-13 978-0-87071-089-6. Paperback, $22.95 With the skill of a historian, Don Berry set his celebrated trilogy of novels—Trask, Moontrap, and To Build a Ship—in pioneer-era Oregon. In A Majority of Scoundrels, he brings the craft of a novelist to his captivating history of the American fur trade. Berry’s fresh and invigorating narrative captures the peak years (1822-1834) of the fur trade in the Mountain West, the period in which the Rocky Mountain Fur Company grew to be “the greatest name in the mountains.” |
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Mammals of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coast to the High Cascades By Chris Maser, 1998. ISBN 0-87071-438-4. Paperback, $26.95. A fascinating and intimate look at the life histories and habitats of Northwest mammals. |
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Many Faces: An Anthology of Oregon Autobiography Edited by Stephen Dow Beckham, 1993. Oregon Literature Series, volume 2. ISBN 0-87071-371-X. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-372-8. Paperback, $24.95. Here forty Oregonians, from the prominent to the plain, tell their own stories. |
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Marking the Magic Circle By George Venn,1987. ISBN 0-87071-352-3. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN 0-87071-353-1. Paperback, $15.95. Poetry, fiction, and essays. An important contribution to the literature of place and the increasingly notable literature of the Pacific Northwest by one of the region's noted writers and literary scholars. |
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Moontrap By Don Berry, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-039-7. Paperback, $18.95. Following Trask in Don Berry's trilogy of novels set in the Oregon Territory, Moontrap, winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for best historical novel, is a book of remarkable beauty and power about a man caught between his vivid past and an uncertain future. |
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A Municipal Mother: Portland's Lola Greene Baldwin, America's First Policewoman By Gloria E. Myers, 1995. ISBN 0-87071-386-8. Hardcover, $29.95. This fascinating story, set in Portland, Oregon, evokes the flavor of urban life in ragtime America, when police power increasingly became the watchdog of social morality. |
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Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River By John Kirk Townsend, Introduction and annotation by George A. Jobanek, 1999. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-525-9. Paperback, $17.95. This classic account of western exploration and scientific discovery chronicles the journey of the first trained naturalist to cross the American continent. |
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Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward An Environmental History of War Edited by Richard P. Tucker and Edmund Russell, 2004.. ISBN 0-87071-047-8. Paperback, $29.95. How has war changed and damaged the environment? How has nature influenced war? As the first collection of essays on war and environmental history, Natural Enemy, Natural Ally heralds the advent of a major new field of study. |
| Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington By Jerry F. Franklin and C.T. Dyrness, 1988. ISBN 0-87071-356-6. Paperback, $34.95. A reprint of the most comprehensive volume on Pacific Northwest ecology. |
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Nature's Justice: Writings of William O. Douglas Edited by James M. O'Fallon, 2000. Northwest Reader. ISBN 0-87071-482-1. Hardcover, $35.00. As the longest serving Justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, William O. Douglas was known for writing a host of dissenting opinions. He was also a prolific writer off the bench, a man whose work was as much concerned with nature as with law. |
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Nehalem Tillamook Tales By Clara Pearson, Elizabeth Derr Jacobs. Introduction by Jarold Ramsey, 1990. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-502-X. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN 0-87071-503-8. Paperback, $21.95. One of the most accessible and readable collections of traditional Native literature. |
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The Nehalem Tillamook By Elizabeth D. Jacobs, Edited by William Seaburg, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-556-9. Paperback, $21.95. The first book-length ethnography of any Western Oregon native group, The Nehalem Tillamook fills an important gap in what was previously known about southern Northwest Coast native cultures. |
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New Era: Reflections on the Human and Natural History of Central Oregon By Jarold Ramsey, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-557-7. Paperback, $14.95. New Era is a graceful and literate collection of personal essays on the human and natural history of the Oregon high desert. |
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North Bank: Claiming a Place on the Rogue By Robin Carey, 1998. ISBN 0-87071-448-1. Hardcover, $19.95. A rich and poignant look at fly fishing, favorite rivers, and the power of familiar landscapes. |
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Northwest Birds in Winter By Alan Contreras, 1997. ISBN 0-87071-425-2. Paperback, $17.95. The first guide to the distribution and abundance of birds that winter in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and southern British Columbia. |
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Northwest Reprints Series Robert J. Frank, series editor |
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The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A Documentary History Edited by Joseph Cone and Sandy Ridlington, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-390-6. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-472-4. Paperback, $24.95. In this unique documentary record of the roots of the region's most divisive issue, knowledgeable observers of salmon history comment on documents they believe most clearly revealed the causes and early warning signs of today's crisis. |
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Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw By Ana Maria Spagna, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-009-5. Paperback, $17.95. Now Go Home tells the story of how a quintessential California girl ended up earning her living in the Pacific Northwest with a crosscut saw. With candor, wit, and hard-earned wisdom, Spagna reflects on the journey that took her from a childhood in the suburbs of LA to a trail crew in the North Cascades. |
