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Whitewater-Classics-Book
Whitewater Classics - Book
FHPCON02
Whitewater Classics features top whitewater destinations from the jungles of Mexico to the tundra of Alaska. The continent's most notable rivers and most influential paddlers are chronicled in this instant classic of river literature.Part guide book, part history book, and part story book, Whitewater Classics is a must for any whitewater enthusiast.
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Dimensions (IN): 8.9 x 7
Author: Tyler Williams
ISBN: 9780966491937
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Across the Olympic Mountains - Book - Paracay
Across the Olympic Mountains - Book
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MOU144
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 mountains during one of the worst winters in recorded history...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Robert Wood
ISBN: 9780898862195
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Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story - Book - Paracay
Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story - Book
PGN434
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 Mikkelsen was devoted to Arctic exploration. In 1910 he decided to search for the diaries of the ill-fated Mylius-Erichsen expedition, which had set out to prove that Robert Peary’s outline of the East Greenland coast was a myth, erroneous and presumably self-serving. Iver Iversen was a mechanic who joined Mikkelsen in Iceland when the expedition’s boat...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Ejnar Mikkelsen
ISBN: 9781586423346
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California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History - Book - Paracay
California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History - Book
UWP019
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 experiences of the people who lived on the land long before European settlers arrived. Historian William Bauer seeks to correct that oversight through an innovative approach that tells California history strictly through Native perspectives. Using oral histories of Concow, Pomo, and Paiute workers, taken as part of a New Deal federal works project, Bauer...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.96 x 6
Author: William J. Bauer Jr.
ISBN: 9780295998350
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Indian-Legends-Of-The-Pacific-Northwest-Book
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest - Book
IPS359
This collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above. Each group of stories is prefaced by a brief factual account of Indian beliefs and of storytelling customs. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest is a treasure, still in print after fifty years.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.25 x 5.5
Author: Ella E., Clark
ISBN: 9780520239265
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Thunder in the Mountains - Book - Paracay
Thunder in the Mountains - Book
HRW153
“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”―Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families who resisted moving onto a reservation. Standing in his way was Chief Joseph, a young leader who never stopped advocating for Native American...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.3 x 5.6
Author: Daniel J., Sharfstein
ISBN: 9780393355659
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World - Book
PGN225
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 Best Books of the Year Winner of the  Los Angeles Times  Book Prize, The James Wright Award for Nature Writing, the  Costa Biography Award, the Royal Geographic Society's Ness Award, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Royal Society Science Book Prize, the  Kirkus...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.2 x 1.2 x 8
Author: Andrea Wulf
ISBN: 9780345806291
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Jedediah Smith: Mountain Man of the American West - Book
CSP010
Follows the life of the nineteenth-century trapper and explorer who earned his reputation on the western frontier.
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 9
Author: Charles W Maynard
ISBN: 9780823962877
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1000 Flags: Banners and Ensigns - Book
FFB165
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 it.   1000 Flags   reveals the significance and meaning of a flag's graphic components and introduces the major types of flag, with additional focus on the unusual and the unexpected. The book covers:   Flag definition, composition and forms:   What makes a flag To hoist the colors:   White, black, red, green, blue, yellow and...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 9
Author: Elisabeth Dumont-Le Cornec
ISBN: 9780228102588
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World - Book
PGN018
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.  
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 7.25
Author: Mark Kurlansky
ISBN: 9780140275018
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The Curve of Time - Paperback - Paracay
The Curve of Time - Paperback
HPC178
A beloved and bestselling Pacific Northwest adventure classic, now available in paperback! Widowed at the age of thirty-five, Muriel Wylie Blanchet packed up her five children in the summers that followed and set out aboard the twenty-five-foot  Caprice . For fifteen summers, in the 1920s and 1930s, the family explored the coves and islands of the West Coast, encountering settlers and hermits, hungry bears and dangerous tides, and falling under the spell of the region’s natural beauty. Driven by curiosity, the family followed the quiet coastline, and Blanchet—known as Capi, after her boat—recorded their wonder as they threaded...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.8 x 9
Author: M. Wylie Blanchet
ISBN: 9781990776786
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Seattle'S Waterfront - Book - Paracay
Seattle's Waterfront - Book
ARC122
Seattle's waterfront has served as a central hub for people, transportation, and commerce since time immemorial. A low natural shoreline provided the Duwamish-Suquamish people with excellent canoe access to permanent villages and seasonal fishing camps. High bluffs served as a sacred place for tribal members' final journey to the spirit world. When the first settlers arrived in the 1850s, Seattle's shoreline began to change drastically. Emerald hills covered with dense forests were logged for timber to make way for the new city. As time passed, Seattle constructed a log seawall, wooden sidewalks, wharfs, buildings, streets, railroad...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.25
Author: Joy Keniston-Longrie
ISBN: 9781467130523
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Exploring the Oregon Trail: America's Historic Road Trip - Book
GPT268
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, activities, and towns along the trail, will please both adventurers planning to travel the trail and individuals who wish to learn about and follow the trail from an easy chair. Complete with maps and details of each state from Missouri to Oregon, Exploring the Oregon Trail will give readers everything needed to follow in the footsteps of the...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Kay W. & David L. Scott
ISBN: 9781493066070
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Roadside-History-Of-Nevada-Book
ROADSIDE HISTORY OF NEVADA - Book
MPP035
There's more to Nevada than one-armed bandits, cheap buffets and Elvis impersonators and this book proves it. Roadside History of Nevada leads readers across the not-so-lifeless desert, visiting long-forgotten boom-and-bust mining towns, quirky roadside stops, and the intrigues of the real Las Vegas. With a historian's nose for detail and a traveler's sense of fun, Richard Moreno presents a myriad of memorable tales of Nevada's places and people. Illuminating the text are 140 photographs, plus a detailed map for each section. From Paiutes to pioneers and from dams to divorce seekers, Roadside History of Nevada reveals the Silver State's...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9.25 x 6.25
Author: Richard, Moreno
ISBN: 9780878424108
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California Missions
California Missions - Book
NBN019
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 photographs capture the spirit and unique design of each mission and preserve their timeless beauty.
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 9.7 x 9.9 x 0.7
Author: Londie Del Padelsky
ISBN: 9781931153881
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Starvation Heights: Dangerous Women: True Crime Stories - Book - Paracay
Starvation Heights: Dangerous Women: True Crime Stories - Book
PGN438
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 forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters, but within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation Heights, the women underwent brutal treatments and were emaciated shadows of their former selves. Claire and Dora were...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Gregg Olsen
ISBN: 9781400097463
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When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse...
When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse... - Book
INT332
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.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 7
Author: Olivia A. Isil
ISBN: 9780070328778
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Olympic Hot Springs - Book - Paracay
Olympic Hot Springs - Book
ARC186
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 to soak in the earthen pools of mineral water, unaware that years ago it was home to a legendary resort. While on a hunting trip in 1907, Billy Everett, "Slim" Farrell, and Charlie Anderson rediscovered the springs and began work developing the site of Olympic Hot Springs, hewing logs into wood baths and building a cabin and bathhouse along the...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.25
Author: Teresa, Schoeffel-Lingvall
ISBN: 9781467130196
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Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery - Book
HPC170
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 trade with the fabled Orient, set sail from a hidden Mexican port to cross the Pacific—and then, critically, to attempt the never-before-accomplished return, the  vuelta.  Four ships set out from Navidad, each one carrying a dream team of navigators. The smallest ship, guided by seaman Lope Martín, a  mulatto  who had risen through the ranks to...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 7
Author: Andrés Reséndez
ISBN: 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
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Bainbridge Island - Images of America - Book - Paracay
Bainbridge Island - Images of America - Book
ARC185
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 expedition of 1841. Ferry service and other means of water transport were the only ways onto the island until 1950, when a bridge was completed. Bainbridge Island is only a 30-minute ferry ride from Seattle, and its only bridge approaches the island from the west. The City of Bainbridge Island, which includes the entire 65-square-mile island, incorporated...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.3 x 0.3"
Author: Donald R. Tjossem
ISBN: 9780738599922
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Monterey County'S North Coast And Coastal Valleys - Book - Paracay
Monterey County's North Coast and Coastal Valleys - Book
ARC174
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 sloughs, settlers built four distinct communities. Juan B. Castro subdivided his family's rancho to found Castroville, now known as the artichoke capital of the world. Captain Moss and Cato Vierra opened a port, a sea gate to a premier agricultural area. Moss Landing later hosted whalers, a salt works, canneries, and a power generation plant. John...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.25
Author: Margaret, Clovis
ISBN: 9780738546773
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Fortune's A River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America - Book
HPC171
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 Nautical Research Society's Keith Matthews Award Fortune's a River  is the most authoritative and readable account to date of just how British Columbia became British and how Oregon, Washington and Alaska became American. By the closing years of the 18th century, the stage was set for a major international confrontation over the Northwest...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Barry Gough
ISBN: 9781550174595
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Coquille - Book - Paracay
Coquille - Book
ARC187
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 became established. The first wagon road was completed to Marshfield. In the 1890s, a railroad was constructed from Marshfield to Coquille and on to Myrtle Point, setting the stage for a dramatic expansion of the timber industry, dairy farming, and coal mining. By the 1920s, electric power, telephones, automobiles, and paved roads were the norm....
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.25
Author: Bert, Dunn
ISBN: 9781467129497
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In The Circle Of Ancient Trees - Book - Paracay
In the Circle of Ancient Trees - Book
IPS391
“In these exquisitely illustrated pages, we hear from ten explorers who clamber down cliffs, traverse bogs, and dodge killer bees to study the world’s greatest plants.”—Oliver Uberti, author of   Atlas of the Invisible   and   Where the Animals Go From the Giant Sequoia to the Bald Cypress, this captivating book explores the stories of 10 species of ancient trees, their unique environments, and what they have to tell us about the history of our world. Ingrained and encrypted in the growth rings of every tree are stories of its environment and the events to which it bore witness.  In the Circle of Ancient Trees  presents...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6.22 x 9.21
Author: Valerie Trouet
ISBN: 9781778402685
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The Ballard Locks - Book - Paracay
The Ballard Locks - Book
ARC033
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 completed in 1917, the locks were second only in size to the Panama Canal and the first of their kind on the West Coast. They function primarily to maintain the lakes' levels and allow the movement of vessels between them and the sea. The Ballard Locks are among Seattle's top tourist attractions; more than one million people visit annually. They...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.25
Author: Adam, Woog
ISBN: 9780738559179
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Gun: A Visual History - Book
PGN122
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 history, including the Musket, Gatling Gun and AK-47 assault rifle. . Step inside famous gun maker factories, from Colt and Smith & Wesson to Beretta and discover how guns were - and still are - developed and produced. Meet famous gunslingers and legendary sharpshooters from Dick Turpin and Billy the Kid to James Bond, hear their stories and learn...
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Book Type: Paperback
Author: DK Publishing
ISBN: 9780756695736
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Salt: A World History - Book
PGN077
  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.  
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Mark Kurlansky
ISBN: 9780142001615
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The Wright Brothers - Book - Paracay
The Wright Brothers - Book
SIM475
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 brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot. Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.13 x 9.25
Author: David McCullough
ISBN: 9781476728759
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The Last Wilderness - Book - Paracay
The Last Wilderness - Book
UWP020
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 miles of living ice that gave rise to swift rivers alive with giant salmon. "Drawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, forest trails, and waterways, Morgan recounts vivid adventures of the area's settlers―loggers, hunters, prospectors, homesteaders, utopianists, murderers, profit-seekers, conservationists, Wobblies, and...
Location: Olympic Peninsula
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.4 x 5.5
Author: Murray Morgan
ISBN: 9780295745336
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Around Florence - Book - Paracay
Around Florence - Book
ARC184
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 in 1916, the town was cut off and dependent upon ocean-going ships. The Siuslaw did not make it easy because of a notoriously shifting river mouth before the north jetty was built in 1893. Even after the jetty, crossing the bar continued to be treacherous due to shallow depths and fickle winds. Even so, entrepreneurs William Kyle and O.W. Hurd, in...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.25
Author: Judy, Fleagle
ISBN: 9781467131520
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Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition - Book
RAN043
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.
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 8 x 95
Author: Caroline Alexander
ISBN: 375404031
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Howard Hughes: His Life And Madness - Book - Paracay
Howard Hughes: His Life And Madness - Book
WWN821
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 man. Originally published under the title Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes. 80 photographs
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Dimensions (IN): 9.3 x 6.1
Author: Donald L. Barlett
ISBN: 9780393326024
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Gods & Goblins: A Field Guide To Place Names Of The Olympic National Park - Book - Paracay
Gods & Goblins: A Field Guide to Place Names of the Olympic National Park - Book
PPK002
Smitty Parratt's long out-of-print book, Gods & Goblins, has for years been the bible of Olympic National Park culture and history. Now back in print, this new edition features dozens of recently unearthed stories and photographs in addition to Smitty's original materal. The 700 entries of this book tell the stories of Native Americans, mountain men, early explorers, settlers and captialists who gave names to the geography of the Olympic National Park.
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Dimensions (IN): 9 x 6
Author: Smitty Parratt
ISBN: 9781578334483
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The Final Forest - Book - Paracay
The Final Forest - Book
UWP021
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 the self-proclaimed "Logging Capital of the World" and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests. Since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William Dietrich first published The Final Forest in 1992, logging in Forks has given way to tourism, but even with its new fame, Forks is still a home to loggers and others who make...
Location: Forks, Washington
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.95 x 6.09
Author: William, Dietrich
ISBN: 9780295990620
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Fate Is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir - Book - Paracay
Fate Is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir - Book
SIM473
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 Book Review ). “A splendid and many-faceted personal memoir that is not only one man’s story but the story, in essence, of all men who fly” ( Chicago Tribune ). In his inimitable style, Gann brings you right into the cockpit, recounting both the triumphs and terrors of pilots who flew when flying was anything but routine.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.13 x 9.25
Author: Ernest K. Gann
ISBN: 9780671636036
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Candy Bomber - Book - Paracay
Candy Bomber - Book
PGN498
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 S. Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. To bring a bit of hope, he began dropping chocolate and chewing gum by parachute. What began as a one-time gesture of compassion turned into an official U.S. Air Force operation. “Operation Little Vittles” grew, as more and more pilots volunteered to drop the parachutes, and donations of...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7.38 x 9
Author: Michael O. Tunnell
ISBN: 9781580893374
$995
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The Bomber Mafia - Book - Paracay
The Bomber Mafia - Book
HCT089
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 together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.   Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.25
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
ISBN: 9780316296816
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The Resurrected Pirate - Book - Paracay
The Resurrected Pirate: The Life, Death, and Subsequent Career of the Notorious George Lowther - Book
SPC085
Experience the adventures of the pirate George Lowther and learn how he was "resurrected" as a Royal Navy officer, nearly 20 years after his alleged death by suicide in 1723. George Lowther was a mutineer and a pirate, one of the most prolific during the golden age of piracy. His first mate, Edward "Ned" Low, went on to establish himself as perhaps the most sadistic and depraved of all pirate captains. Virtually all popular sources specify Lowther's death being by suicide in 1723, while marooned on the small island of Blanquilla, off the coast of Venezuela. While researching the War of Jenkins' Ear, historian Craig Chapman found...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6.14 x 9.06
Author: Craig S. Chapman
ISBN: 9780764369070
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Book
PGN284
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 wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Charles C. Mann
ISBN: 9781400032051
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The Sea and Civilization - Book
RAN329
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 waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors’ first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt,...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9.6 x 7.1 x 1.9
Author: Lincoln Paine
ISBN: 9781101970355
$2800
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Women To Reckon With: Untamed Women Of The Olympic Wilderness - Book - Paracay
Women to Reckon With: Untamed Women of the Olympic Wilderness - Book
PPK003
Biographies of 12 remarkable women of the Pacific Northwest.
Location: Olympic National Park
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 10.25 X 9.25
Author: Gary Peterson
ISBN: 9781578333875
$2195
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War - Book
SIM432
“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 destroyer. In June 1983, President Reagan watched the movie  War Games , in which a teenager unwittingly hacks the Pentagon, and asked his top general if the scenario was plausible. The general said it was. This set in motion the first presidential directive on computer security. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria,...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Fred Kaplan
ISBN: 9781476763262
$1899
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The Creation of Christendom - Book
IHP_TCC
This book is about western history based on the assumption that history is linear with "loopy" bits every now and then. This means that, in general, today is better than yesterday and the trend shows no signs of breaking.   It is the author's belief that all who are human are created in the image of a loving God and that creativity takes up where abuse leaves off.  Freedom from abuse leads to increasing creativity and an increase the world's economic pie.  Life is not a zero sum game.   The purpose of the book is to replay history as a story in which not all the details are known.  History, like life, is not Manichaean and the fun...
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Author: Murray Lytle
$2500
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Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz - Book - Paracay
Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz - Book
HCT061
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 November 20, 1969 - the end of one of the most tumultuous decades in American history - eighty-nine young Native American activists crossed the San Francisco Bay under cover of darkness, calling themselves the Indians of All Tribes. Their objective? To claim the former prison island of Alcatraz, basing their actions on an 1868 treaty that said...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.9 x 1.0 x 8.3"
Author: Joseph Bruchac
ISBN: 9781419757198
$1999
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50 Aircraft That Changed the World - Book - Paracay
50 Aircraft That Changed the World - Book
FFB177
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 is about exactly this type of flight revolution. Written by the authors of the widely acclaimed Aviation Century series, it profiles 50 of history's most influential aircraft and their pilots and designers. Now an aviation classic, the book has been reformatted to a smaller size but otherwise remains the same. It begins with the 1905 Wright Flyer...
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Dimensions (IN): 9 x 9 x 0.6"
Author: Ron Dick, Dan Patterson
ISBN: 9780228102618
$2495
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Deep River: A Novel - Book - Paracay
Deep River: A Novel - Book
IPS318
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War, a rich family saga about Finnish immigrants who settle and tame the Pacific Northwest, set against the early labor movements, World War I, and the upheaval of early twentieth-century America Karl Marlantes’s debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling?the family epic?to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention. In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia’s imperial rule takes its toll on...
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Dimensions (IN): 8.2 x 5.4
Author: Karl Marlantes
ISBN: 9780802148971
$2000
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds - Book
WWN825
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 helps land planes, route mobile calls, anticipate earthquakes, predict weather, locate oil deposits, measure neutrinos, grow our food, and regulate global finance. It is as ubiquitous and essential as another Cold War technology, the Internet. In  Pinpoint , Greg Milner takes us on a fascinating tour of a hidden system that touches almost...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Greg Milner
ISBN: 9780393354362
$1695
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Jesintel: Living Wisdom From Coast Salish Elders - Book
UCP001
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 interviews that share powerful experiences and stories, Jesintel illuminates the importance of ethical reciprocal relationships and the interconnectedness of places, land, water, and the spirit within all things. Elders offer their perspectives on language revitalization, Coast Salish family values and naming practices, salmon, sovereignty, canoe...
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Dimensions (IN): 9.1 x 0.6 x 10.2"
Author: Children Of The Setting Sun Productions
ISBN: 9780295748641
$3495
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The Lost Journals Of Sacajewea: A Novel - Book - Paracay
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel
IPS317
Winner of the American Book AwardWinner of the Montana Book AwardWinner of the PNBA Book Award“ In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe’s rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare trees scratched sky. Cold was endless. He moved through trees like strikes of sunlight. My Bia said he came with bad intentions, like a Water Baby’s cry.” Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling brings this mythologized figure vividly to life, casting unsparing light on the men...
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Dimensions (IN): 8.4 x 5.5
Author: Debra Magpie Earling
ISBN: 9781639550746
$1800
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Portsmouth - Then and Now - Book - Paracay
Portsmouth - Then and Now - Book
ARC183
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 bustling port to a modern New England city that carefully balances the best of old and new. In Then & Now: Portsmouth, authors William T. and Constance S. Warren share their collection of photographs, postcards, and maps to illustrate Portsmouth scenes of days gone by alongside contemporary photographs. Readers will enjoy the country seaport...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.3 x 0.3"
Author: William T. Warren & Constance S. Warren
ISBN: 9780738509013
$2199
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