Description:
This colorfully illustrated essay collection by teacher, naturalist, and award-winning nonfiction writer Jack Nisbet examines various aspects of David Douglas' career while also shedding light on the area's people and landscapes. Originally published in conjunction with a major museum exhibit, this is the first paperback edition.
Brief description:
Jack Nisbet is a teacher, naturalist, and award-winning nonfiction writer who focuses on the intersection of human and natural history in the Pacific Northwest. His award-winning books include Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson across Western North America, which won a Washington State Governor's award, the Idaho Librarians Book of the Year, and the Murray Morgan History Prize. His book, Visible Bones: Journeys across Time in the Columbia River Country, explores the melding of human and natural history in the Northwest. In 2004 it garnered a Washington State Library Book Award.
Review Quotes:
"Nisbet's method of interpreting regional history isn't the usual staid recitation of dates and facts. In pursuit of bringing stories nearly 200 years old to life, he walks trails, visits reservations and tribal elders, charters pilot boats, climbs trees and wild-harvests food."
--Cascadia Weekly