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Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History
PGN077
$19.00  
Paperback, Mark Kurlansky, 463 pages, 5 x 8, 9780142001615
  Salt-the only edible rock-has made a large and often surprising contribution to man's history. This is very engaging history blending economic, scientific, political religious and culinary records into a memorable tale.  
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
PGN225
$20.00  
Paperback, Andrea Wulf, 576 pages, 5.2 x 1.2 x 8, 9780345806291
The acclaimed author of  Founding Gardeners  reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism. NATIONAL BEST SELLER One of the  New York Times  10...
Jedediah Smith: Mountain Man of the American West
Jedediah Smith: Mountain Man of the American West
CSP010
$18.45  
Hardcover, Charles W Maynard, 24 pages, 9 x 9, 9780823962877
Follows the life of the nineteenth-century trapper and explorer who earned his reputation on the western frontier.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
PGN284
$19.00  
Paperback, Charles C. Mann, 541 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781400032051
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.   Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine...
When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse...
When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse...
INT332
$24.00  
Paperback, Olivia A. Isil, 125 pages, 7 x 7, 9780070328778
A salty collection of over 250 words, phrases and sayings that have become common in English usage. Arranged alphabetically and each entry is accompanied by a full explanation of origins and use. For lovers of English and the sea.
Starvation Heights: Dangerous Women: True Crime Stories - Book
Starvation Heights: Dangerous Women: True Crime Stories - Book
PGN438
$20.00  
Gregg Olsen , 448 pages, 5 x 8, 9781400097463
In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history. In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the...
1000 Flags: Banners and Ensigns
1000 Flags: Banners and Ensigns
FFB165
$24.95  
Paperback, Elisabeth Dumont-Le Cornec, 240 pages, 7 x 9, 9780228102588
A guide to the world's flags, their history and design. Did you know that the flag of the United States has been modified 32 times? And that the Jolly Roger is still flown today? Every flag raised through time has a remarkable history tied to the identity and history of whoever is flying...
California Missions
California Missions
NBN019
$24.50  
Hardcover, Londie Del Padelsky, 152 pages, 9.7 x 9.9 x 0.7, 9781931153881
Londie Padelsky's gorgeous images of the California missions take the reader on a tour of these beautiful and historical structures. It is no wonder the missions draw so many visitors each year. Each one played an important role in the settling of the West and of California. Padelsky's vivid...
Chainsaws: A History
Chainsaws: A History
HPC162
$34.95  
paperback, David Lee, 216 pages, 11x10, 9781550179118
With hundreds of full-colour photographs and fascinating ephemera, combined with an authoritative text listing hundreds of chainsaw models from the 1800s to the present,   Chainsaws   carefully traces the evolutionary threads of countless pioneer devices―from six-hundred-pound steam-powered...
Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
RAN043
$38.00  
Hardcover, Caroline Alexander, 160 pages, 8 x 95, 375404031
A superb, authoritative telling of one of history's great survival stories, that of Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 expedition to cross Antarctica. The author draws on previously unavailable material and presents the awesome photographs by Frank Hurley.
Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk: An Illustrated History of the Stealth Fighter - Book
Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk: An Illustrated History of the Stealth Fighter - Book
SPC080
$19.95  
Paperback, Bill Holder, 64 pages, 8.5 x 0.25 x 11", 9780764300677
Lockheed F-117 Night Hawks: A Stealth Fighter Roll Call - Book
Lockheed F-117 Night Hawks: A Stealth Fighter Roll Call - Book
SPC081
$49.99  
Hardcover, Don Logan, 208 pages, 8.7 x 1.0 x 11.2", 9780764332425
Across the Olympic Mountains - Book
Across the Olympic Mountains - Book
MOU144
$18.95  
Paperback, Robert Wood, 240 pages, 5 x 8, 9780898862195
In 1889 Washington's then governor, Elisha Ferry, called on men of adventure to cross the Olympic Mountains, a range shrouded in mystery. The  Seattle Press , the state's primary newspaper, stepped up to the challenge, sponsoring the Press Expedition. And soon departed a band of men into the...
The Esselen - Book
The Esselen - Book
ROS002
$12.95  
Paperback, Miranda Rathjen, 32 pages, 7.2 x 0.4 x 8.7", 9781538324592
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird: The Illustrated History of America's Legendary Mach 3 Spy Plane - Book
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird: The Illustrated History of America's Legendary Mach 3 Spy Plane - Book
SPC082
$45.00  
Hardcover, James C. Goodall, 224 pages, 9.3 x 1.0 x 12.3", 9780764355042
Fortune's A River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America
Fortune's A River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America
HPC171
$28.95  
Paperback, Barry Gough, 416 pages, 6 x 9, 9781550174595
Winner of the John Lyman Book Award for best Canadian naval and maritime history Finalist for the Nereus Writers' Trust Non-fiction Award Finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, BC Book Prize Longlisted for the 2007 Victoria Butler Book Prize Honourable Mention for the Canadian...
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
PGN018
$18.00  
Paperback, Mark Kurlansky, 282 pages, 5 x 7.25, 9780140275018
Spans a thousand years and four continents to tell the history of cod fishing and the fish that changed the world and made possible the settlement of North America.  
Exploring the Oregon Trail: America's Historic Road Trip
Exploring the Oregon Trail: America's Historic Road Trip
GPT268
$22.95  
Paperback, Kay W. & David L. Scott, 208 pages, 6 x 9, 9781493066070
The Oregon Trail, the route of the pioneers during the largest mass migration in United States history, was a long and difficult journey made by Americans nearly two centuries ago. This guidebook, rich with photos, interviews, and information about the famous landmarks, facilities, individuals,...
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
SIM432
$18.99  
Paperback, Fred Kaplan, 352 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781476763262
“An important, disturbing, and gripping history” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent and employ cyber wars—where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass...
Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz - Book
Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz - Book
HCT061
$19.99  
Hardcover, Joseph Bruchac, 256 pages, 5.9 x 1.0 x 8.3", 9781419757198
In Of All Tribes, Abenaki children's book icon Joseph Bruchac tells the stirring history of the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz by Native Americans, which established a precedent for Indian activism. Alcatraz is not an island. It's an idea. - activist Richard Oakes (Akwesasne Mohawk) On the night of...
SR-71 Blackbird: Lockheed's Ultimate Spy Plane - Book
SR-71 Blackbird: Lockheed's Ultimate Spy Plane - Book
SPC079
$24.99  
Hardcover, David Doyle, 144 pages, 9.25 x 0.75 x 9.25", 9780764367083
Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story - Book
Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story - Book
PGN434
$16.95  
Ejnar Mikkelsen, 224 pages, 5 x 8, 9781586423346
Now a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ( Game of Thrones ) The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong Ejnar...
Portland's Maritime History
Portland's Maritime History
ARC093
$15.50  
Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467130844
50 Aircraft That Changed the World - Book
50 Aircraft That Changed the World - Book
FFB177
$19.95  
Paperback, Ron Dick, Dan Patterson, 208 pages, 9 x 9 x 0.6", 9780228102618
In December of 2019, Vancouver-based airline Harbour Air took to the sky in a 1956 Havilland Beaver retrofitted to fly on battery power. Eschewing gasoline and easily able to fly commuter distances, this old new plane took the first steps of 21st-century flight. 50 Aircraft That Changed the World...
Gun: A Visual History
Gun: A Visual History
PGN122
$19.99  
Paperback, DK Publishing, 9780756695736
From rifles to sniper guns, machine guns to grenade launchers, Gun: A Visual History is a fully loaded guide to over 300 of the most important guns from the last 700 years. . Perfect for anyone interested in firearms, Gun: A Visual History has revealing features on twenty 'key' guns from...
Haunted Battlefields
Haunted Battlefields
LPP028
$12.95  
Paperback, Dan Asfar, 232 pages, 5 x 8, 9781894877435
After the rifles, cannons and bugles fall silent, when the losses have been counted and the mourners are gone, the ghosts of war return. Drawing on the Civil War, the War of 1812, the Revolutionary War and other conflicts, storyteller Dan Asfar weaves tales of phantom soldiers, supernatural...
Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
WWN825
$16.95  
Paperback, Greg Milner, 336 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780393354362
Pinpoint  tells the story of GPS, a scientific marvel that enables almost all modern technology―but is changing us in profound ways. Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS...
Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
HPC170
$17.99  
Paperback, Andrés Reséndez , 304 pages, 5 x 7, The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery—and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plo
The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery—and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history   It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plotting to break Portugal’s monopoly...
Bainbridge Island - Images of America - Book
Bainbridge Island - Images of America - Book
ARC185
$24.99  
Paperback, Donald R. Tjossem, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9.3 x 0.3", 9780738599922
Bainbridge Island sits in the middle of Puget Sound in Washington State. Its unique history starts with the Native Americans and includes logging, farming, fishing, and shipbuilding from the late 1800s through the present. Early explorers included George Vancouver in 1792 and the Wilkes...
Portsmouth - Then and Now - Book
Portsmouth - Then and Now - Book
ARC183
$21.99  
Paperback, William T. Warren & Constance S. Warren, 96 pages, 6.5 x 9.3 x 0.3", 9780738509013
Residents and visitors strolling through the streets of Portsmouth may wonder about the changes the city has seen over the years. Though much of Portsmouth's charm comes from an appearance that little has been altered, the community has transitioned over the centuries from rural farms to a...
Jesintel: Living Wisdom From Coast Salish Elders - Book
Jesintel: Living Wisdom From Coast Salish Elders - Book
UCP001
$34.95  
Paperback, Children Of The Setting Sun Productions, 224 pages, 9.1 x 0.6 x 10.2", 9780295748641
Dynamic and diverse, Coast Salish culture is bound together by shared values and relations that generate a resilient worldview. Jesintel―"to learn and grow together"―characterizes the spirit of this book, which brings the cultural teachings of nineteen elders to new generations. Featuring...
The Sea and Civilization
The Sea and Civilization
RAN329
$25.00  
Paperback, Lincoln Paine, 784 pages, 9.6 x 7.1 x 1.9, 9781101970355
A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s...
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea - Book
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea - Book
IPS330
$26.00  
Debra Magpie Earling, 264 pages, 5.75 x 8.5, 9781571311450
Winner of the Montana Book Award From the award-winning author of   Perma Red   comes a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges prevailing historical narratives of Sacajewea. “In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe’s rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare...
Candy Bomber - Book
Candy Bomber - Book
PGN498
$9.95  
Paperback, Michael O. Tunnell , 120 pages, 7.38 x 9, 9781580893374
One WWII pilot’s mission to lift the spirits of children living in war-torn Berlin in 1945 comes to life in this moving middle-grade historical account. After World War II the United States and Britain airlifted food and supplies into Russian-blockaded West Berlin. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail...
Fate Is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir - Book
Fate Is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir - Book
SIM473
$20.99  
Paperback, Ernest K. Gann, 416 pages, 6.13 x 9.25, 9780671636036
Ernest K. Gann’s classic pilot's memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviation. “Few writers have ever drawn readers so intimately into the shielded sanctum of the cockpit, and it is hear that Mr. Gann is truly the artist” ( The New York Times...
Salt to the Sea - Book
Salt to the Sea - Book
PGN499
$13.99  
Paperback, Ruta Sepetys, 448 pages, 8.2 x 1.3, 9780142423622
#1   New York Times  bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal!  "A superlative novel . . . masterfully crafted."-- The Wall Street Journal Based on "the forgotten tragedy that was six times deadlier than the   Titanic ."-- Time Winter 1945. WWII. Four refugees. Four stories....
Olympic Hot Springs - Book
Olympic Hot Springs - Book
ARC186
 
Paperback, Teresa, Schoeffel-Lingvall, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9.25, 9781467130196
The Olympic Hot Springs served as a destination resort in the Olympic Mountains near Port Angeles, Washington, for 60 years. Andrew Jacobsen is considered the first to discover the springs, nestled 2,100 feet up in the Elwha River valley, in 1892. Today, individuals still hike up the Elwha trail...
The Flight Girls - Book
The Flight Girls - Book
HRW234
$16.99  
Paperback, Noelle Salazar, 384 pages, 6.04 x 8.95, 9780778369226
A   USA TODAY and   PUBLISHERS WEEKLY   bestseller—for fans of   All the Light We Cannot See   and   The Tattooist of Auschwitz ! “I read well into the night, unable to stop. The book is unputdownable.”—Debbie Macomber, #1   New York Times   bestselling author...
Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance - Book
Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance - Book
HEY020
$22.00  
Paperback, Terria Smith, 272 pages, 5.5 x 8, 9781597146067
An essential look at the ways California’s Native nations are resisting colonialism today, from education reform to protests against environmental injustice and beyond. Collecting over twenty-five essays written by more than twenty California Indian authors,  Know We Are Here  surveys...
The Wright Brothers - Book
The Wright Brothers - Book
SIM475
$19.99  
Paperback, David McCullough, 336 pages, 6.13 x 9.25, 9781476728759
The #1   New York Times   bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two...
Coquille - Book
Coquille - Book
ARC187
$24.99  
Paperback, Bert, Dunn, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9.25, 9781467129497
In the early 19th century, Coquille was quiet and inhabited by Upper Coquille Native Americans. This changed when Evan Cunningham, the first European settler, arrived in the 1860s. Soon thereafter, others arrived. In the 1880s, homes, businesses, and a sawmill appeared. Riverboat transportation...
The Bomber Mafia - Book
The Bomber Mafia - Book
HCT089
$18.99  
Paperback, Malcolm Gladwell , 256 pages, 5.5 x 8.25, 9780316296816
Dive into this “truly compelling” ( Good Morning America )   New York Times   bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war—from the creator and host of the podcast   Revisionist History. In  The Bomber Mafia ,  Malcolm Gladwell weaves...
Around Florence - Book
Around Florence - Book
ARC184
$21.99  
Paperback, Judy, Fleagle, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9.25, 9781467131520
Florence, located midway on the Oregon coast, has North America's largest stretch of dunes to the south and the most photographed headlands on the Pacific coast to the north. Although Florence is on the coast, it is a river town located on a bend of the Siuslaw River. Before the railroad arrived...
The Ballard Locks - Book
The Ballard Locks - Book
ARC033
$24.99  
Paperback, Adam, Woog, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9.25, 9780738559179
The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, known locally as the Ballard Locks, are an integral part of Seattle's extensive waterways. The busiest facility of their kind in America, the Ballard Locks form the heart of the channel connecting Puget Sound's saltwater with Seattle's main freshwater lakes. When...
California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History - Book
California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History - Book
UWP019
$30.00  
Paperback, William J. Bauer Jr., 184 pages, 8.96 x 6, 9780295998350
Bauer tells California history strictly through Native perspectives. Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and conveniently skip to the Gold Rush of 1849. Noticeably absent from these stories are the perspectives and...
Monterey County's North Coast and Coastal Valleys - Book
Monterey County's North Coast and Coastal Valleys - Book
ARC174
$21.99  
Paperback, Margaret, Clovis, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9.25, 9780738546773
Fog billows gently across Monterey County's north coast, a white blanket tucked up against the hills of Aromas. Beneath its protective shroud, fishing boats gently rock, artichokes thrive, and shorebirds build nests along Elkhorn Slough. In this muffled landscape of fertile loam crisscrossed by...
The Final Forest - Book
The Final Forest - Book
UWP021
$19.95  
Forks, Washington, Paperback, William, Dietrich, 320 pages, 8.95 x 6.09, 9780295990620
2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award Before Forks, a small town on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series, it was...
Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and The Wild West Show - Book
Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and The Wild West Show - Book
RAN682
$24.00  
Paperback, Louis S. Warren, 672 pages, 5.19 x 8, 9780375726583
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity? In this prize-winning...
Howard Hughes: His Life And Madness - Book
Howard Hughes: His Life And Madness - Book
WWN821
$22.95  
Paperback, Donald L. Barlett, 688 pages, 9.3 x 6.1, 9780393326024
The life that inspired the major motion picture The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at...
The Last Wilderness - Book
The Last Wilderness - Book
UWP020
$24.95  
Olympic Peninsula, Paperback, Murray Morgan , 296 pages, 8.4 x 5.5, 9780295745336
Murray Morgan's classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness "as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of...
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