Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest

by Jack Nisbet

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632170809
• ISBN13: 9781632170804
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"