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Puget's Sound

A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound

by Murray Morgan ...

With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, “the City of Destiny,” and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of Washington’s history took place. Drawing upon original journals and reports, Morgan builds Puget’s Sound around individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known ... Read more

$28.49 USD

With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, “the City of Destiny,” and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of Washington’s history took place. Drawing upon original journals and reports, Morgan builds Puget’s Sound around individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known
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Death Valley National Park

A History

by Hal Rothman, Char Miller ...

Series series America's National Parks
The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert. Established as a national monument in 1933, Death Valley was an anomaly within the national park system. Though many who knew this landscape were convinced that its stark beauty should be preserved, to do so required a ... Read more

$17.99 USD

The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert. Established as a national monument in 1933, Death Valley was an anomaly within the national park system. Though many who knew this landscape were convinced that its stark beauty should be preserved, to do so required a
... Read more
Speaking of Bears

The Bear Crisis and a Tale of Rewilding from Yosemite, Sequoia, and Other National Parks

by Rachel Mazur ...

As majestic as they are dangerous, and as timeless as they are current, bears continue to captivate readers. Speaking of Bears is not your average collection of stories. Rather it is the history, compiled from interviews with over 100 individuals, of how Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks, all in California’s Sierra Nevada, created a human-bear problem so bad that there were ... Read more

$15.99 USD

As majestic as they are dangerous, and as timeless as they are current, bears continue to captivate readers. Speaking of Bears is not your average collection of stories. Rather it is the history, compiled from interviews with over 100 individuals, of how Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks, all in California’s Sierra Nevada, created a human-bear problem so bad that there were
... Read more
The Indifferent Stars Above

The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

by Daniel James Brown ...

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois ... Read more

$13.49 USD

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois
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Ladies of the Canyons

A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

by Lesley Poling-Kempes ...

Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world.Educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice Klauber, and Mary Cabot Wheelwright were plucky, intrepid women whose lives were transformed in the first ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world.Educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice Klauber, and Mary Cabot Wheelwright were plucky, intrepid women whose lives were transformed in the first
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Coming into the Country

by John McPhee ...

Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush.Readers of McPhee's earlier books will not be unprepared for his surprising shifts of scene ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush.Readers of McPhee's earlier books will not be unprepared for his surprising shifts of scene
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Rail-Trails Pacific Northwest

The Definitive Guide to Multiuse Trails in Idaho, Oregon & Washington

by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy ...

Series series Rail-Trails
Explore 65 of the best rail-trails and other multiuse pathways in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.All across the country, unused railroad corridors have been converted into public multiuse trails. Level and accessible, these paths are ideal for a brisk fitness walk, bike ride, or stroll with the family. In Rail-Trails Pacific Northwest, the experts from Rails to Trails Conservancy present the best ... Read more

$15.19 USD

Explore 65 of the best rail-trails and other multiuse pathways in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.All across the country, unused railroad corridors have been converted into public multiuse trails. Level and accessible, these paths are ideal for a brisk fitness walk, bike ride, or stroll with the family. In Rail-Trails Pacific Northwest, the experts from Rails to Trails Conservancy present the best
... Read more
Hunter's Moon

by Dana Stabenow ...

Series Book 9 - A Kate Shugak Investigation
The Edgar Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling series by Dana Stabenow set in Alaska. Kate Shugak takes on a murderous hunting party in Hunter's Moon.For one group of hunters, it's open season on murder...It's autumn in Alaska: hunting season. Kate Shugak is acting guide to ten big game hunters carrying an arsenal of expensive weaponry. Unfortunately, not one of them seems to know one end of ... Read more

$11.29 USD

The Edgar Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling series by Dana Stabenow set in Alaska. Kate Shugak takes on a murderous hunting party in Hunter's Moon.For one group of hunters, it's open season on murder...It's autumn in Alaska: hunting season. Kate Shugak is acting guide to ten big game hunters carrying an arsenal of expensive weaponry. Unfortunately, not one of them seems to know one end of
... Read more
Walking Portland

33 Tours of Stumptown's Funky Neighborhoods, Historic Landmarks, Park Trails, Farmers Markets, and Brewpubs

by Becky Ohlsen ...

Series series Walking
Get to Know Portland’s Vibrant and Historic NeighborhoodsGrab your walking shoes, and become an urban adventurer. Local author Becky Ohlsen guides you through 33 unique walking tours in the city that’s famous for its great beer and for serious dining on a reasonable budget. Portland is home to hidden gardens, historic landmarks, award-winning restaurants, old-school taverns, oddball shops, and ... Read more

$12.39 USD

Get to Know Portland’s Vibrant and Historic NeighborhoodsGrab your walking shoes, and become an urban adventurer. Local author Becky Ohlsen guides you through 33 unique walking tours in the city that’s famous for its great beer and for serious dining on a reasonable budget. Portland is home to hidden gardens, historic landmarks, award-winning restaurants, old-school taverns, oddball shops, and
... Read more
Hiking Oregon

A Guide to the State's Greatest Hiking Adventures

by Lizann Dunegan ...

Series series State Hiking Guides Series
Experience 48 of the best hikes in Oregon. This one-of-a-kind guidebook will take outdoor enthusiasts on hikes along rugged, rocky coastline to historic lighthouses; through scented, sagebrush high desert and magnificent lava plains; to the tops of volcanic peaks; past cascading waterfalls; and alongside wild and scenic rivers. ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Experience 48 of the best hikes in Oregon. This one-of-a-kind guidebook will take outdoor enthusiasts on hikes along rugged, rocky coastline to historic lighthouses; through scented, sagebrush high desert and magnificent lava plains; to the tops of volcanic peaks; past cascading waterfalls; and alongside wild and scenic rivers.
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Oakland Noir

by Eddie Muller, Nick Petrulakis, Kim Addonizio, Keenan Norris, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Katie Gilmartin, Dorothy Lazard, Harry Louis Williams II, Carolyn Alexander0, Phil Canalin1, Judy Juanita2, Jamie DeWolf3, Nayomi Munaweera4, Mahmud Rahman5, Tom McElravey6, Joe Loya7 ...

Series series Akashic Noir
"Wonderfully, in Akashic's Oakland Noir, the stereotypes about the city suffer the fate of your average noir character--they die brutally. Kudos to the editors, Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller, for getting Oakland right. All those outsize statistics don’t reveal a real city, but this collection of local voices--both established and new--brings it thrumming to life...Readers who know the city will ... Read more

$12.39 USD

"Wonderfully, in Akashic's Oakland Noir, the stereotypes about the city suffer the fate of your average noir character--they die brutally. Kudos to the editors, Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller, for getting Oakland right. All those outsize statistics don’t reveal a real city, but this collection of local voices--both established and new--brings it thrumming to life...Readers who know the city will
... Read more
A Walk in the Park

The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

by Kevin Fedarko ...

*** Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature * Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Air Mail, Smithsonian Magazine, and Financial Times“A triumph. Fedarko doesn’t describe awe; he induces it.” —The New York Times Book Review****“Passionate…memorable…life-affirming.” —The Wall Street ... Read more

$16.99 USD

*** Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature * Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Air Mail, Smithsonian Magazine, and Financial Times“A triumph. Fedarko doesn’t describe awe; he induces it.” —The New York Times Book Review****“Passionate…memorable…life-affirming.” —The Wall Street
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Lonely Planet Maui

by Lonely Planet ...

Series series Travel Guide
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Maui.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from digging into Maui specialty dishes at the revered Sam Sato's in Wailuku to snorkelling the abundant coral that line the edges of Honolua Bay, and hiking past stone temples and a burial ground in the Halawa Valley.Build a trip to remember ... Read more

$17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Maui.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from digging into Maui specialty dishes at the revered Sam Sato's in Wailuku to snorkelling the abundant coral that line the edges of Honolua Bay, and hiking past stone temples and a burial ground in the Halawa Valley.Build a trip to remember
... Read more
Backpacking Idaho

From Alpine Peaks to Desert Canyons

by Douglas Lorain ...

Series series Backpacking
Traverse 25 carefully crafted backpacking trips to some of the most magnificent landscapes in Idaho.A virtually undiscovered backpacking paradise, Idaho has numerous wilderness areas of vast size. Backpackers can find complete solitude, glimpse wildlife, and explore some of North America’s most amazing scenery. The state’s mountains boast great weather: fewer thunderstorms than the central Rockies ... Read more

$13.69 USD

Traverse 25 carefully crafted backpacking trips to some of the most magnificent landscapes in Idaho.A virtually undiscovered backpacking paradise, Idaho has numerous wilderness areas of vast size. Backpackers can find complete solitude, glimpse wildlife, and explore some of North America’s most amazing scenery. The state’s mountains boast great weather: fewer thunderstorms than the central Rockies
... Read more
Walking Birds & Jumping Geckos - Intriguing Tales About Interesting Places On The Island Of Kauai

by Cas Franklin ...

The Hawaiian Islands are the most remote landmass in the world, and made up of a huge chain of atolls and islets that stretch out for over thirteen hundred miles of the Pacific ocean. Kauai is the forth largest island in the chain. Mount Waialeale, which is in the center island is called the "wettest spot on the earth"; it receives 425 inches of rainfall each year on its peak. Seven beautiful ... Read more

$4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Hawaiian Islands are the most remote landmass in the world, and made up of a huge chain of atolls and islets that stretch out for over thirteen hundred miles of the Pacific ocean. Kauai is the forth largest island in the chain. Mount Waialeale, which is in the center island is called the "wettest spot on the earth"; it receives 425 inches of rainfall each year on its peak. Seven beautiful
... Read more
Finding the Wild West: The Pacific West

California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska

by Mike Cox ...

From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Pacific West states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska- ... Read more

$16.99 USD

From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Pacific West states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska-
... Read more
Wild

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

by Cheryl Strayed ...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century**At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was ... Read more

$7.99 USD

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century**At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was
... Read more
Wild Yosemite

25 Tales of Adventure, Nature, and Exploration

Edited by Susan M. Neider ...

An ideal gift for lovers of nature.This beautiful literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of America’s most notable and extraordinarily talented writers. In 1851, Lafayette Bunnell chronicled his travels with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non-natives to visit Yosemite Valley. Following in his footsteps, Theodore Roosevelt, Ralph Waldo ... Read more

$12.99 USD

An ideal gift for lovers of nature.This beautiful literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of America’s most notable and extraordinarily talented writers. In 1851, Lafayette Bunnell chronicled his travels with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non-natives to visit Yosemite Valley. Following in his footsteps, Theodore Roosevelt, Ralph Waldo
... Read more
Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles 2024

by Not For Tourists ...

Series series Not For Tourists
With details on everything from the Hollywood Bowl to the Sunset Strip, this is the only guide a native or traveler needs.The Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles is the essential urban handbook that thousands of Los Angelenos rely on daily. The map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood guidebook divides the city into fifty-seven mapped neighborhoods and pinpoints all of the essential services and ... Read more

$18.99 USD

With details on everything from the Hollywood Bowl to the Sunset Strip, this is the only guide a native or traveler needs.The Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles is the essential urban handbook that thousands of Los Angelenos rely on daily. The map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood guidebook divides the city into fifty-seven mapped neighborhoods and pinpoints all of the essential services and
... Read more
Real Life Yellowstone

What Wildlife in America's Premier Park Can Teach Us

by Scott Herring ...

In a place like Yellowstone the rules that humans normally live by are only one set of rules among many. When we leave the roads and villages other rules come into play, rules where creatures who are not always friendly have a say. The largest animal in North America, the bison, lives here and is often ill-tempered. The Park hosts a wide range of pathogens—viruses, bacteria, and parasites, ... Read more

$17.99 USD

In a place like Yellowstone the rules that humans normally live by are only one set of rules among many. When we leave the roads and villages other rules come into play, rules where creatures who are not always friendly have a say. The largest animal in North America, the bison, lives here and is often ill-tempered. The Park hosts a wide range of pathogens—viruses, bacteria, and parasites,
... Read more
Best Hiking in Central Colorado around Aspen, Marble, Leadville, Buena Vista and Crested Butte

by Diane Greer ...

Updated and Revised in 2019 - An opinionated guide to the best hikes in one of Colorado's best hiking areas, the Sawatch and Elk Mountains in central Colorado around the towns of Aspen, Buena Vista, Crested Butte, Marble and Leadville. The Sawatch and Elk Mountain ranges offer the quintessential Rocky Mountain hiking experience with the trails that take you above timberline to beautiful mountain ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Updated and Revised in 2019 - An opinionated guide to the best hikes in one of Colorado's best hiking areas, the Sawatch and Elk Mountains in central Colorado around the towns of Aspen, Buena Vista, Crested Butte, Marble and Leadville. The Sawatch and Elk Mountain ranges offer the quintessential Rocky Mountain hiking experience with the trails that take you above timberline to beautiful mountain
... Read more
Seattle's Best Dive Bars

Drinking & Diving in the Emerald City

by Mike Seely ...

Series series Best Dive Bars
"Informative, witty, and wonderfully atmospheric, Seely's thirsty travelogue should leave even the most pious Washingtonians praying that there'll be honky tonks in heaven."-Tom Robbins"Seely, managing editor of the Seattle Weekly, is a genuinely funny writer who doesn't need to get snarky to get laughs...A fair amount of Seattle's heritage resides on pages of 'Seattle's Best Dive Bars,' or at ... Read more

$1.99 USD

"Informative, witty, and wonderfully atmospheric, Seely's thirsty travelogue should leave even the most pious Washingtonians praying that there'll be honky tonks in heaven."-Tom Robbins"Seely, managing editor of the Seattle Weekly, is a genuinely funny writer who doesn't need to get snarky to get laughs...A fair amount of Seattle's heritage resides on pages of 'Seattle's Best Dive Bars,' or at
... Read more
Graveyard of the Pacific

Shipwreck and Survival on America’s Deadliest Waterway

by Randall Sullivan ...

A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history—and present—of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the worldOff the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it’s nicknamed the Graveyard of the ... Read more

$12.99 USD

A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history—and present—of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the worldOff the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it’s nicknamed the Graveyard of the
... Read more
Rock Climbing Washington

by Jeff Smoot ...

Series series State Rock Climbing Series
This updated edition of Rock Climbing Washington features more than 1,500 routes throughout the state of Washington. Explore the granite cliffs of Index, Leavenworth, Darrington, and Tieton River Canyon; tackle the exposed alpine routes on the spires at Washington Pass; or hang from steep sport climbs at North Bend, Frenchman Coulee, and Marcus and China Bend near Spokane. ... Read more

$30.99 USD

This updated edition of Rock Climbing Washington features more than 1,500 routes throughout the state of Washington. Explore the granite cliffs of Index, Leavenworth, Darrington, and Tieton River Canyon; tackle the exposed alpine routes on the spires at Washington Pass; or hang from steep sport climbs at North Bend, Frenchman Coulee, and Marcus and China Bend near Spokane.
... Read more

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