history/geography

Item Description

From the covers:

The Collector - David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest:

"Between 1823 and 1834, Scottish naturalist David Douglas wandered from New York to Hawaii in quest of promising nursery plants for the London Horticultural Society. He was a complex character whose dogged perseverance delivered a flood of both scientific aames and garden delights to Great Britain, and in the greater Northwest his achievements far outstripped the commercial aspirations of his employers. Today, we attach his name to the Douglas fir, iconic tree of the Northwest, as well as to many other familiar plants and animals."

Ancient Places - People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest:

"Ancient Places is an assemblage of nonfiction stories about the interplay between people and the landscape where they happen to live. Drawing on a range of fresh personal research, both oral and written, author Jack Nisbet (Sources of the River, The Collector) engages some of the iconic images in Northwest history from fossil riches to Ice Age floods, from the Willamette Meteorite to the 1872 Earthquake, from up-and-down mining cycles to steady rounds fo tribal food gathering."

Note:  The Collector won the PNBA Book Award, and is listed for $48 on Amazon.

both by Jack Nisbet

The Collector:

2009

274 pages

hardbound

5.75" x 8.75"

new condition (note: The Collector by itself costs $48.88 on Amazon)

Ancient Places:

2015 pages

hardbound

5.75" x 8.75"

new condition

 

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