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Flora of Mount Rainier National Park by David Biek 9780870714702
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870714702Author David BiekFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher... -
There Was an Old Woman: Reflections on these Strange, Surprising, Shining Years by Andrea Carlisle 9780870712579
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £15.55In There Was An Old Woman, Andrea Carlisle presents a collection of personal essays that explore this time of life and consider misperceptions, hard truths, needs, and often beautiful complexity... -
The Mountains of Paris: How Awe and Wonder Rewrote My Life by David Oates 9780870719813
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Living in Paris for a winter and a spring and waking each morning to a view of Notre Dame, David Oates is led to revise his life story from one of trudging and occasional woe into one punctuated by... -
Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters by Charles C. Finn 9780870716553
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870716553Author Charles FinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher... -
As the Condor Soars: Conserving and Restoring Oregon's Birds by Susan M. Haig
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £24.38As the Condor Soars focuses on the increasing role that ornithologists played in public agencies, changing ideas about ecosystems, and conservation debates in Oregon. These themes are most clearly... -
Grit and Ink: An Oregon Family's Adventures in Newspapering, 1908-2018 by William F. Willingham
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.77Beneath the 24/7 national news cycle and argument over 'fake news,' there is a layer of journalism that communities absolutely depend upon. Grit and Ink offers a rare look inside the financial... -
Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change by Thomas a Kerns
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66For the first time in history, an international human-rights court has weighed the evidence that fracking and climate change systematically violate human rights. Bearing Witness presents the searing... -
Hops: Historic Photographs of the Oregon Hopscape by Kenneth I. Helphand
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54The craft brewing renaissance of recent decades has brought a renewed interest in hops. These vigorous vines, with their flavorful flowers, have long played a key role in beer making and in Oregon's... -
Lebanese Amber: The Oldest Insect Ecosystem in Fossilized Resin by George Poinar Jr 9780870715334
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870715334Author George Poinar JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State... -
A Week in Yellowstone's Thorofare: A Journey Through the Remotest Place by Michael J. Yochim 9780870718564
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.05The remotest place in the country, outside of Alaska, is a region in Yellowstone National Park ironically named the Thorofare, for its historic role as a route traversed by fur trappers. A Week in... -
A Tidal Odyssey: Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides by Richard Astro 9780870711589
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In 1948, just weeks before his best friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts died, John Steinbeck wrote of Ricketts process of discovery, noting that "a young, inquisitive, and original man might... -
Boundary Layer: Exploring the Genius Between Worlds by Kem Luther 9780870718441
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.64In atmospheric science, a boundary layer is the band of air nearest the ground. In the Pacific Northwest, the boundary layer teems with lichens, mosses, ferns, fungi, and diminutive plants. It's an... -
Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris by Bonnie Henderson 9780870712999
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.77In Strand, travel writer and amateur naturalist Bonnie Henderson traces the stories of wrack washed up on the mile-long stretch of Oregon beach she has walked regularly for more than a decade... -
Mammals of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coast to the High Cascades by Chis Maser 9780870714382
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870714382Author Chis MaserFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher... -
Through a Green Lens: Fifty Years of Writing for Nature by Robert Michael Pyle 9780870718816
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.58By an early age, Robert Michael Pyle discovered that he had a greater facility with words than with numbers. In high school, he found he could get good grades and win essay contests by relying on... -
One Sunny Day: A Child's Memories of Hiroshima by Hideko Tamura Snider 9780870712333
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Hideko was ten years old when the atomic bomb devastated her home in Hiroshima. In this eloquent and moving narrative, Hideko recalls her life before the bomb, the explosion itself, and the influence... -
River Basins of the American West: A High Country News Reader by Char Miller 9780870715747
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.60This companion volume to Water in the 21st-Century West examines water issues through the lens of major Western U.S. watersheds. From the pages of High Country News, the voice of Western... -
Words Marked by a Place: Local Histories in Central Oregon by Jarold Ramsey 9780870719202
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Words Marked by a Place is a book of interconnected essays engaging from different angles the history and lore of Central Oregon, and reflecting on and exemplifying the theory and practice of local... -
Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World (Northwest Reprints) (Northwest Reprints Book) by Kathleen Dean Moore 9780870717086
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.26Naturalist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore meditates on connection and separation in these twenty-one elegant, probing essays. Using the metaphor of holdfasts the structures that attach seaweed... -
Therefore, Choose Life...: An Autobiography by Moisey Wolf 9780870717444
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.38An annotated translation of the extraordinary autobiography of Dr. Moisey Wolf (1922-2007), "Therefore, Choose Life..." is an important addition to the literature of Jewish experience and deepens our... -
Outsiders in a Promised Land: Religious Activists in Pacific Northwest History by Dale Siden 9780870717789
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.01Outsiders in a Promised Land explores the role that religious activists have played in shaping the culture of the Pacific Northwest, particularly in Washington and Oregon, from the middle of the 19th... -
A Man for All Seasons: Monroe Sweetland and the Liberal Paradox by William G. Robbins 9780870718113
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.24The life of prominent Oregon political leader Monroe Sweetland spans the spectrum of 20th-century America. Through seven decades, Sweetland experienced the economic collapse of the Great Depression,... -
Reporting the Oregon Story: How Activists and Visionaries Transformed a State by Floyd J. McKay 9780870718465
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.86Oregon entered a new era in 1964 with the election of Tom McCall as Secretary of State and Bob Straub as State Treasurer. Their political rivalry formed the backdrop for two of Oregon's most... -
Kanaka Hawai'i Cartography: Hula, Navigation, and Oratory by Renee Pualani Louis 9780870718892
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Hawai'ian performance cartography is an interactive presentation of place as "experienced space" that situates mapping in the environment, and encodes spatial knowledge into bodily memory via... -
The Only Woman in the Room: The Norma Paulus Story by Norma Paulus 9780870718953
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.88Engaging and opinionated, charming and forceful, Norma Paulus was widely covered in statewide and national newspapers and television during her eventful, sometimes controversial political career. She... -
Sporting Oregon: A Pictorial History of Early Oregon Sports by Brian S. Campf 9780870719714
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.15For more than twenty-five years, Brian Campf collected vintage photographs and ephemera related to Oregon sports. Sporting Oregon includes approximately 350 images from Campf's extensive collection... -
Ricky in the City: Where the Wildlife Live by Judith L. Li 9780870719776
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.30It's early fall when Ricky and Ellie travel to Portland from their homes in the Cascade Mountains for a weekend school exchange. Much to their surprise, they find an astounding variety of wildlife... -
Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory by R. Gregory Nokes 9780870717123
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.70When they were brought to Oregon in 1844, Missouri slaves Robin and Polly Holmes and their children were promised freedom in exchange for helping develop their owner's Willamette Valley farm... -
City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary by David Oates 9780870710957
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870710957Author David OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher... -
Water in the 21st-Century West: A High Country News Reader by Char Miller 9780870715662
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.71Water in the 21st-Century West offers a timely look at the central issue facing the American West the region's diminishing water supply. It collects the best reporting on the subject, drawn from the... -
The Lumberman's Frontier by Thomas R. Cox 9780870715792
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.52With The Lumberman's Frontier, Thomas Cox has reconstructed a groundbreaking history that stands apart from all previous studies of American forests.Forests were ubiquitous in early America, but it... -
To the Promised Land: A History of Government and Politics in Oregon by Tom Marsh 9780870716577
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.79The first comprehensive political history of Oregon, To the Promised Land also examines the social and economic changes the state has pioneered during its almost two hundred years. Highlighting major... -
Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau: The Jesuit, the Medicine Man, and the Indian Hymn Singer by Chad Hamill 9780870716751
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau explores the role of song as a transformative force in the twentieth century, tracing a cultural, spiritual, and musical encounter that upended... -
Escaping into Nature: The Making of a Sportsman-Environmentalist and Environmental Historian by John F. Reiger 9780870717109
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.71In Escaping into Nature, prominent wildlife conservationist and environmental historian John Reiger shares his story of an angler and hunter who found a cause and a calling and combined them for his... -
Wild and Scenic Rivers: An American Legacy by Tim Palmer 9780870718977
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.23The rivers of America flow from mountains, forests, and grasslands with astonishing beauty, essential to all life. Many of the best of these streams have been safeguarded under the National Wild and... -
Salmon is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed by Theresa May 9780870719479
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56After a devastating fish kill on the Klamath River, tribal members and theatre artist Theresa May developed a play to give voice to the central spiritual and cultural role of salmon in tribal life... -
Portland's Audacious Champion: How Bill Naito Overcame Anti-Japanese Hate and Became an Intrepid Civic Leader by Erica Naito-Campbell 9781962645096
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.78William "Bill" Sumio Naito (1925-1996) was a remarkable and visionary individual-the Portland-born son of Japanese immigrants who became one of the city's most significant business and civic leaders... -
Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher by Marina Richie 9780870712036
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47More than one hundred species of kingfishers are found distributed around the world - every continent but Antarctica. All share oversized heads, dagger bills, and short flicking tails. Many have... -
Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History by Nicholas B. Breyfogle 9780870712371
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £24.72Hydraulic Societies explores the linked themes of water, power, state-building, and hydraulic control. Bringing together a range of ecological, geographical, chronological, and methodological... -
Another Way the River Has by Robin Cody 9780870715839
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.07Another Way the River Has collects Robin Cody's finest nonfiction writings, many appearing for the first time in print. Cody's prose rings with a sense of place. He is a native speaker who probes the...