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Author: Ruth Kirk Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 9780295974439 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 566
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A traveler's guide to Washington state, focusing on historical sites. Sections on various regions describe local history, with entries on towns and sites offering information on festivals, museums, and historic districts. Contains b&w photos, and a chronology. c. Book News Inc.
Author: Ruth Kirk Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 9780295974439 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 566
Book Description
A traveler's guide to Washington state, focusing on historical sites. Sections on various regions describe local history, with entries on towns and sites offering information on festivals, museums, and historic districts. Contains b&w photos, and a chronology. c. Book News Inc.
Author: John Deviny Publisher: Sweetgrass Books ISBN: 9781591520177 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 0
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With stunning photographs and inspiring, often provocative, stories, Exploring Washington's Backroads takes you off the beaten path and into the colorful soul of the Evergreen State. This book will seduce the roadtrip adventurer with its romantic imagery and thoughtful, descriptive clarity. Even the more existentially challenged will thoroughly enjoy these seventeen fun and whimsical excursions around one of North America's most beautifully diverse regions.
Author: Craig Romano Publisher: Braided River ISBN: 9780898868166 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 134
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The beauty of the Columbia Highlands is subtle. It's measured by rays of sunlight filtering through a cathedral forest of ancient pines; a golden hillside teeming with deer; in the soft breezes that whistle through shiny snags. It's cherished for its vastness, its lack of human intervention, its rejuvenating properties, and its abundant wildlife. Columbia Highlands is a portrait of this-little known corner of the American West. It reveals its function as an important wildlife bridge between the Rockies and the Cascades for animals- including wolves, bears, moose, and lynx-who must roam to survive. It reveals the surprising coalition of people- hunters, hikers, loggers, business owners, Native people, and more-united in their love of the land and working to protect and restore it. Theirs is a new kind of conservation plan, one that preserves the health of the ecosystem while sustaining a viable rural economy and lifestyle.
Author: BJ Cummings Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295747447 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 239
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Restores the river to its central place in the city’s history With bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people to its shores over the centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. Chief Se’alth and his allies fished and lived in villages here and white settlers established their first settlements nearby. Industrialists later straightened the river’s natural turns and built factories on its banks, floating in raw materials and shipping out airplane parts, cement, and steel. Unfortunately, the very utility of the river has been its undoing, as decades of dumping led to the river being declared a Superfund cleanup site. Using previously unpublished accounts by Indigenous people and settlers, BJ Cummings’s compelling narrative restores the Duwamish River to its central place in Seattle and Pacific Northwest history. Writing from the perspective of environmental justice—and herself a key figure in river restoration efforts—Cummings vividly portrays the people and conflicts that shaped the region’s culture and natural environment. She conducted research with members of the Duwamish Tribe, with whom she has long worked as an advocate. Cummings shares the river’s story as a call for action in aligning decisions about the river and its future with values of collaboration, respect, and justice.
Author: Ryan P. Kelly Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295749970 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 266
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A spectacular variety of life flourishes between the ebb and flow of high and low tide. Anemones talk to each other through chemical signaling, clingfish grip rocks and resist the surging tide, and bioluminescent dinoflagellates—single-celled algae—light up disturbances in the shallow water like glowing fingerprints. This guidebook helps readers uncover the hidden workings of the natural world of the shoreline. Richly illustrated and accessibly written, Between the Tides in Washington and Oregon illuminates the scientific forces that shape the diversity of life at each beach and tidepool—perfect for beachgoers who want to know why. Features include • profiles of popular and off-the-beaten-track sites to visit along the Greater Salish Sea, Puget Sound, and Washington and Oregon coasts • the fascinating stories behind both common and less familiar species • a lively introduction to how coastal ecosystems work and why no two beaches are ever alike
Author: Kristin Schuetz Publisher: Blastoff! Readers ISBN: 9781626170476 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Washington"--
Author: Richard Brookhiser Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0684831422 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 244
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"Revisits the spectacular career of George Washington, at once our most familiar and enigmatic president. Challenging the modern perceptions of Washington as either a political figurehead of little actual importance or a folk legend rather than a real man, Brookhiser traces the president's amazing accomplishments as a statesman, soldier, and founder of a great nation in a quarter century of activity that remains unmatched by any modern leader. Brookhiser goes on to examine Washington's education, ideals, and intellectual curiosity, illuminating how Washington's character and values shaped the beginnings of American politics."--Page 4 of cover.
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