Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest

Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest

by Jack Nisbet
Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest

Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest

by Jack Nisbet

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Overview

From a master of regional and natural history comes a collection of essays that reveals how the Pacific Northwest shaped the people—and how the people shaped the land
 
Drawing on a range of personal research, author Jack Nisbet 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 of tribal food gathering. Although the scale of time and space in some of the pieces is immense, individual characters still manage to leave their marks; even though the force of modern civilization sometimes seems overwhelming, small places and their key components somehow persevere.

These are the genesis stories of a region. In Ancient Places, Jack Nisbet uncovers touchstones across the Pacific Northwest that reveal the symbiotic relationship of people and place in this corner of the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781632170804
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Publication date: 08/02/2016
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 440,517
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

JACK NISBET is a historian, teacher, and author focusing on the intersection of human history and natural history in the Pacific Northwest. His books include Sources of the River (recipient of the Washington Governor's Award and winner of the Murray Morgan Prize from the Washington State Historical Society), The Mapmaker's Eye (named one of The Best Nonfiction Books of the Year by The Seattle Times)The Collector (a Pacific Northwest Book Award winner), The Dreamer and The Doctor, and Visible Bones. He lives in Spokane, Washington.

Table of Contents

Map of the Northwest vi

I Chasing the Electric Fluid 1

II Meltdown 15

III The Longest Journey 31

IV A Taste for Roots 59

V A Possible Friend 81

VI Riding the High Wire 105

VII Terra-Cotta Man 125

VIII Sisters 147

IX The Whole Bag of Crayons 167

X Restless Earth 189

Coda: Skate Away 211

Acknowledgments 219

Chapter Notes 221

Selected Bibliography 231

Index 239

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