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Reach of Tide, Ring of History: A Columbia River Voyage by Sam McKinney 9780870714849
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Oregon Book Awards (Nonfiction) 1988.Book InformationISBN 9780870714849Author Sam McKinney -
The Tangled Bank: Writings from Orion by Robert Michael Pyle 9780870716799
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.82"It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the... -
Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era by Richard W. Etulain 9780870717024
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.08This cross-continental history demonstrates Abraham Lincoln's strong connections with the Oregon Country on various political issues-Indian relations, military policies, civil and legal rights, and... -
Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food: Perspectives on Eating from the Past and a Preliminary Agenda for the Future by Ken Albala 9780870717185
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.98Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food is a practical food history lesson, an editorial on our use of packaged convenience foods, and a call to arms-of the kitchen variety. Mixing food writing and history,... -
Morning Light: Wildflowers, Night Skies, and Other Ordinary Joys of Oregon Country Life by Barbara Drake 9780870717604
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.38When Barbara Drake and her husband left Portland and moved to a small farm in western Oregon's Yamhill Valley in the late 1980s, they saw it as a temporary relocation - they would return to the city... -
Accidental Gravity: Residents, Travelers, and the Landscape of Memory by Bernard Quetchenbach 9780870718878
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.77Accidental Gravity is an essay collection that moves from the author's youth in upstate New York to the contemporary western United States, from urban and suburban places to wild lands. In the first... -
Last Stands: A Journey Through North America's Vanishing Ancient Rainforests by Larry Pynn 9780870710278
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870710278Author Larry PynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint -
Sandy: The Sandhill Crane Who Joined Our Family by Dayton O. Hyde 9780870714863
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870714863Author Dayton O. HydeFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint -
Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature by David Oates 9780870715532
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870715532Author David OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint -
Oregon: There and Back in 1877 by Wallis Nash 9780870710773
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870710773Author Wallis NashFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint -
Exploring Oregon’s Historic Courthouses by Kathleen M. Wiederhold 9780870714368
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870714368Author Kathleen M. WiederholdFormat PaperbackPage Count 277 -
A Richer Harvest: The Literature of Work in the Pacific Northwest by Craig Wollner 9780870714658
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870714658Author Craig WollnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint -
Salmon, People, and Place: A Biologist's Search for Salmon Recovery by Jim Lichatowich 9780870717246
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Each year wild Pacific salmon leave their oceanic feeding grounds and swim hundreds of miles back to their home rivers. The salmon's annual return is a place-defining event in the Pacific Northwest,... -
Grass Roots: A History of Cannabis in the American West by Nick Johnson 9780870719080
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Marijuana legalization is unfolding across the American West, but cultivation of the cannabis plant is anything but green. Unregulated outdoor grows are polluting ecosystems, high-powered indoor... -
Honey in the Horn by H. L. Davis
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.38Set in Oregon in the early years of the twentieth century, H. L. Davis's Honey in the Horn chronicles the struggles faced by homesteaders as they attempted to settle down and eke out subsistence from... -
Children of the Stars: Indigenous Science Education in a Reservation Classroom by Ed Galindo
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56In the 1990s, Ed Galindo (Yaqui), a high school science teacher on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, took a team of Shoshone-Bannock students first to Johnson Space Center in Texas and then to... -
The View From Cascade Head: Lessons for the Biosphere from the Oregon Coast by Bruce Byers
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Cascade Head, on the Oregon Coast between Lincoln City and Neskowin, has stunning ocean views, abundant recreational opportunities, and a rich history of ecological research and conservation. Its... -
Happy Valley by Anne Monroe 9780870715075
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870715075Author Anne MonroeFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint -
Long Journey by Biespiel 9780870710988
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Regional Book) 2007.Book InformationISBN... -
Refusing War, Affirming Peace: A History of Civilian Public Service Camp #21 at Cascade Locks by Jeffrey Kovac 9780870715754
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.70One of the untold stories of America's World War II experience belongs to the thousands who refused military service for reasons of conscience, instead serving their country through non-military... -
The Jewish Oregon Story: 1950-2010 by Ellen Eisenberg 9780870718694
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98The Jewish Oregon Story traces the history of diverse Jewish Oregonians and their communities during a period of dramatic change. Drawing on archival sources, including a collection of over five... -
Homing Instincts by Dionisia Morales 9780870719189
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.64Homing Instincts is a collection of personal essays that explores the ways we define "home" at different stages of our lives. Based on pivotal moments in the author's life in New York City and... -
The Way of the Woods: Journeys Through American Forests by Linda Underhill 9780870715686
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.25In The Way of the Woods, Linda Underhill explores some of our nation's most important forests, from the magnificent old-growth groves of Cook Forest in Western Pennsylvania to the endangered hemlock... -
Holy Moli: Albatross and Other Ancestors by Hob Osterlund 9780870718489
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Hob Osterlund moved to Hawaii after being visited in a dream by an ancestor, Martha Beckwith, author of the monumental classic, Hawaiian Mythology. It was there, on the island of Kauai, where she... -
Where the Wind Dreams of Staying: Searching for Purpose and Place in the West by Eric Dietrle 9780870718656
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.13In his powerful memoir Where the Wind Dreams of Staying, Eric Dieterle captures the emotional storms of a boy, and then a man, who seeks meaning in a place, or a place with meaning. His restless... -
Beginner's Luck: Dispatches from the Klamath Mountains by Malcolm Terence 9780870719349
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.23A clueless big-city guy, dropped out from newspaper work, ends up at a new hippie commune in the mountains in the late 1960s, but his luck holds. As he falls in love with the place, he moves into the... -
Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600 by Pamela O. Long 9780870716096
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.21This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and other practitioners on the emergent empirical methodologies that... -
Oregon's Promise: An Interpretive History by David Peterson del Mar 9780870715587
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870715587Author David Peterson del MarFormat PaperbackPage Count 277 -
Westerns by Richard Dankleff 9780870713408
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870713408Author Richard DankleffFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint
Beyond the Garden Gate by Sophus K. Winther 9780870715112
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870715112Author Sophus K. WintherFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint
Dead Wood: The Afterlife of Trees by Ellen Wohl 9780870715273
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Dead Wood explores the life and afterlife of three trees growing along a river: a spruce in the Colorado Rockies, a western red cedar in Washington, and a balsam poplar in Canada. Each tree is...
From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace by Mitzi Asai Loftus 9781962645058
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Mitsuko "Mitzi" Asai was not yet ten years old in the spring of 1942 when President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 sent 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry-about two-thirds of them US citizens-from...
Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon by R. Gregory Nokes 9780870715709
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In 1887, more than thirty Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. Massacred for Gold, the first authoritative account of the...
Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism by Natchee Blu Barnd 9780870719028
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Native Space explores how indigenous communities and individuals sustain and create geographies through place-naming, everyday cultural practices, and artistic activism, within the boundaries of the...
Touching This Leviathan by Peter Wayne Moe
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Touching This Leviathan asks how we might come to know the unknowable--in this case, whales, these animals so large yet so elusive, revealing just a sliver of back, a glimpse of a fluke, or, if...
The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking Through Love and Loss on Alaska's Wild Coast by Mary Emerick
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21There are five layers of the ocean, though most of us alive will only ever see one. The deepest layer of the ocean is called by some the midnight zone. The only light comes from bioluminescence,...
Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People by Carl Abbott 9780870712074
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.06A compact and comprehensive history of Portland from first European contact to the twenty-first century, Portland in Three Centuries introduces the women and men who have shaped Oregon's largest city...
Hunting, Fishing and Environmental Virtue: Reconnecting Sportsmanship and Conservation by Charles J. List 9780870717147
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Do hunting and fishing lead to the development of environmental virtues? This question is at the heart of philosopher Charles List's engaging study, which provides a defence of field sports when they...
A Deadly Wind: The 1962 Columbus Day Storm by John Dodge 9780870719288
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56A Deadly Wind is a deeply researched historical account of the most powerful non-tropical windstorm to ever strike the West Coast: The Columbus Day Storm of October 12, 1962, which plowed a path of...
Black Woman in Green: Gloria Brown and the Unmarked Trail to Forest Service Leadership by Gloria Brown 9780870710018
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56From an unlikely beginning as an agency transcriptionist in her hometown of Washington, DC, Gloria Brown became the first African American woman to attain the rank of forest supervisor at the US...