northwest

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt stamping, 126 pages. Ex-library with light markings and stamping. Much on the fur trade, early agriculture, gold dust and Civil War currency and trade in Oregon during the 1800s.

Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century. Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time. Unshuttered is a vessel for the voices of their incendiary and critical era. Smiths searing stanzas and revelatory language imbue the subjects of the photos with dynamism and revived urgency while she explores how her own past of triumphs and losses is linked inextricably to their long-ago lives. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Light rubbing, soiling to price-clipped dust jacket. Light foxing to edges. Else a clean, tight copy. The author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through the diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, a settler of the region. Doig fuses parts of the Swan diaries with his own journal.

Hardcover. Portland OR, Timber Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 336 pages, color illustrations. Long considered an icon of the wild, wolves capture our imagination and spark controversy. Humans are the adult wolf's only true natural predator; its return to the old-growth forests and wild coastlines of the Pacific Northwest renews age-old questions about the value of wildlands and wildlife. As the vivid stories unfold in this riveting and timely book, wolves emerge as smart, complex players uniquely adapted to the vast interdependent ecosystem of this stunning region. Observing them at close range, David Moskowitz explores how they live, hunt, and communicate, tracing their biology and ecology through firsthand encounters in the wildlands of the Northwest. In the process he challenges assumptions about their role and the impact of even well-meaning human interventions.