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Walking the High Desert
Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail
Former high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks on a creative and inquisitive exploration,...
ISBN: 9780295747507
more detailsThe Propeller under the Bed
A Personal History of Homebuilt Aircraft
On July 25, 2010, Arnold Ebneter flew across the country in a plane he designed and built himself, setting an aviation world record for aircraft of its class. He was eighty-two at the time and...
ISBN: 9780295746081
more detailsShapes of Native Nonfiction
Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
Just as a basket’s purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave, and shape. Editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton ground this anthology...
ISBN: 9780295745756
more detailsUplake
Restless Essays of Coming and Going
For many years, Ana Maria Spagna has stayed put, mostly, in a small mountain valley at the head of a glacier-carved lake. You’re so lucky to live there, people say. She is lucky. But she...
ISBN: 9780295743226
more detailsForest Under Story
Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest
Two kinds of long-term research are taking place at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a renowned research facility in the temperate rain forest of the Oregon Cascades. Here, scientists investigate the ecosystem’s trees, wildlife,...
ISBN: 9780295743660
more detailsWarnings against Myself
Meditations on a Life in Climbing
From his youthful second ascent of the north ridge of Mount Kennedy in the Yukon’s Saint Elias Range, an in-and-out on skis for which he had not entirely learned how to ski, to a recent...
ISBN: 9780295742793
more detailsUnpleasantries
Considerations of Difficult Questions
Even from upside-down in his recently flipped truck, Frank Soos reveals himself to be ruminative, grappling with the limitations of language to express the human condition. Moving quickly—skiing in the dark or taking long summer...
ISBN: 9780295742809
more detailsReclaimers
For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington’s White Salmon River was saddled with a fish-obstructing, inefficient...
ISBN: 9780295742748
more detailsA Year Right Here
Adventures with Food and Family in the Great Nearby
Armed with “The Here List” and a Type-A personality, Seattle-based writer and cookbook author Jess Thomson sets out to spend a year exploring the food of the Pacific Northwest with her family. Planning to revel...
ISBN: 9780295741543
more detailsCitizen 13660
Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into “protective custody” shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's...
ISBN: 9780295993546
more detailsFour Thousand Hooks
A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska
As Four Thousand Hooks opens, an Alaskan fishing schooner is sinking. It is the summer of 1972, and the sixteen-year-old narrator is at the helm. Backtracking from the gripping prologue, Dean Adams describes how he...
ISBN: 9780295993331
more detailsSky Train
Tibetan Women on the Edge of History
Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new "Sky Train," she celebrates Tibetan New Year with...
ISBN: 9780295989532
more detailsOver the Lip of the World
Among the Storytellers of Madagascar
Gifted travel writer, poet, professor of English, and insightful observer of human nature, Colleen McElroy journeyed to Madagascar to undertake a Fulbright research project exploring Malagasy oral traditions and myths. In Over the Lip of...
ISBN: 9780295981154
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